Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
8 quotes
"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."
"If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!"
"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
"for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world."
"The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect."
"Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand."
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
"There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten."