Sarah Dessen Enough Quotations

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough - more than enough, even - just to be there.

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.