Truth Quote by Sarah Dessen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”

“The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

“I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.”

“That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”

“Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.”

“Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.”

“Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.”

“Men--not just babies like you, but old men, too--they always need a woman to tell them the truth.”

“...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

“It has been said, 'the truth will make men free.' The truth alone has never made anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.”

“In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.”

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.”