"So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

Along for the Ride, Sarah Dessen

my Sarah Dessen favorite quote :)

“You have to protect yourself, you can’t just give yourself away. But holding people away from you and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything it makes you weaker because you’re doing it of fear of taking that chance. Of simply letting go and giving into it, and that’s what makes us what we are. Risks, that’s living. Being to scared to even try it - that’s a waste. I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don’t regret things. Because at least I didn’t spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

-Sarah Dessen