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Quotes from Dreamland — Sarah Dessen

born 1970 United States

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25 quotes

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Dreamland (2000)

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

Dreamland (2000)

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

Dreamland (2000)

In physics, I sprung on him as we sat in the Taco Bell drive-through, what does the capital letter W stand for?

Dreamland (2000)

Sitting in front of my parents' house as he kissed me goodnight: Which two planets are almost identical in size?

Dreamland (2000)

Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone?

Dreamland (2000)

We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

Dreamland (2000)

Hey Cass, I'd say, hand me that toothpaste.

Dreamland (2000)

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Dreamland (2000)

I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell.

Dreamland (2000)

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Dreamland (2000)

During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.

Dreamland (2000)

Can she be divorced? I asked. And famous for her commercials and ideas?

Dreamland (2000)

What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?

Dreamland (2000)

She can be anything, Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. And so can you.

Dreamland (2000)

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

Dreamland (2000)

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Dreamland (2000)

Duh, he said, smoothing my hair back, Venus and Earth.

Dreamland (2000)

In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Dreamland (2000)

I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.

Dreamland (2000)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Dessen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.