land of what might have been
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren’t what people wanted to hear.
Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

I just want to share some of my favorite lines from Sarah Dessen’s Truth About Forever… I hope you’ll like it too. 

 

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it’s reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.” 

“I don’t know. Just because someone’s pretty doesn’t mean she’s decent. Or vice versa. I’m not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they made things interesting.” -Wes

“Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it’s like forever, always changing. for any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. you can never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count. what you have to decide is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, is this how you’d want to have spent it?” 

“Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.” 

“But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere. ..”

“It’s not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It’s just that … I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s the universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It’s how life is.” 


That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.
The Truth about Forever - Sarah Dessen
“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren’t what people wanted to hear.” — Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. you get use to the weight, how it holds you in place
Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)