Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
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"Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour."
"Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?"
"Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak."
"It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose."
"Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.-Maggie"
"Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing."
"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak."
"...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know."
"Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make."
"When's something difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder- if not impossible- to lose."
"Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do."
"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."
"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."
"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."
"It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose."
"School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives."
"Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material."
"When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need."
"I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that, succeeding was already a habit too ingrained to break."
"But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent"