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 โ or impossible โ to lose.
Sarah DessenThere was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
Sarah DessenThere has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
Sarah DessenIt was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
Sarah Dessen