This Lullaby Quotes

“Love is an excuse to put up with shit that you shouldn't”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Huffah!”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights studying. The fact that so many figured I couldn't do it.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago."
She looked at me as I said this, an expression of quiet understanding on her face. "Maybe you didn't, though," she said softly. "Lose it, I mean."
"Lissa."
"No, just hear me out." She looked out at the road for a second, then back at me. "Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out to strengthen the most tenuous bound.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings,
but now she was a vegan princess,
living off of beans.
She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger
King, and when I
wouldn't do the same
she gave me back my ring.
I stood there by the romaine lettuce,
feeling my heart
pine.
Wishing that this meatless beauty
still would be all mine.
She turned around
to go to checkout,
fifteen items or less.
And I knew this was the last go-round,
so this is what I said. ...
"Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet
potato.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“It's so weird," Chloe said finally, "that it doesn't feel different now." "What?" I asked her. "Everything," she said. "I mean, this is what we've been waiting for, right? High school's over. It's a whole new thing but it feels exactly the same." "That's because nothing new has started yet," Jess told her. She had her face tipped up, eyes on the sky above us. "By the end of the summer, then things will feel new. Because they will be." Chloe pulled another tiny bottle—this time gin—out of her jacket pocket and popped the top. "It sucks to wait, though," she said, taking a sip of it. "I mean, for everything to begin.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines."
"Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

“Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.”
― Sarah Dessen , This Lullaby