Quotes Tagged "along-for-the-ride"

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, 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 -if not impossible- to lose.
Tags: truth, sarah-dessen, risks, overcoming-obstacles, life-lesson, eli-stock, auden-west, along-for-the-ride
It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride
Tags: sarah-dessen, hope, along-for-the-ride
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
Tags: sports, smart, sarah-dessen, riding, pretty, pageants, maggie-neely, life-lessons, life, girly, either-or, debutante, capable-of-more, boys, bikes, auden-west, along-for-the-ride