There 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 Dessen
Related I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, no... SARAH DESSEN Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY And then, when there is nothing else between us but love, we can begin to find a way to truly be tog... S.J. WATSON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive... DAN FLAVIN What I'm hearing is that this would not just keep scientists in the academic arena here, but it also... JULIE COONS Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? A... LEONARD SUSSKIND I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. TED TURNER Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth... MOS DEF It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t... CRISTIANO RONALDO How wild it was, to let it be. T. S. ELIOT If we could have the ability to change the past and right our wrongs would it make us learn from any... GARY F EVANS... To be in a time of technological change and advancement is an awesome thought indeed as long as it i... GARY F EVANS... Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing... SAMUEL SMILES 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single at... GERARD DE NERVAL You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole tr... ALBERT SCHWEITZER Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process SOTONYE ANGA I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it. HAVELOCK ELLIS There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it HAVELOCK ELLIS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging... NINA LACOUR Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. JAMES BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. LUCILLE BALL What holds South Sydney back can be attributed to lack of funding, but it also is possibly attribute... RUSSELL CROWE There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. HENRY HAVELOCK ELLIS There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. HENRY ELLIS There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. H. HAVELOCK ELLIS You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like... BEBE REXHA With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. DEBASISH MRIDHA If there is so much to tell between two people but nothing is spoken then may be because everything ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I have spend a lot of time on everything and what's impresses me about people I have written that in... DEYTH BANGER Battered and bruised, this heart holds so much pain,
but it holds an equal amount of joy.
All that's... JILL ANZINGER It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing fina... CHARLES FORT I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope."... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The peopl... SARAH DESSEN Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. T... SARAH DESSEN The firm [Yahoo!] says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever kno... REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be qu... LEONARD SUSSKIND It just opens up their eyes to see that there is a whole world out there. That you can also play in ... KRISTI SCHUMACHER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is
the space between the bars that hol... OLD SAYING So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah... SARAH DESSEN The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be any... SARAH DESSEN We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there is nothing tha... C.G. JUNG You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because every... LEWIS CARROLL "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever... ALICE WONDERLAND "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever... ALICE IN WONDERLAND I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are. MONIKA ZANDS You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson... DEYTH BANGER It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that... ELIZABETH WURTZEL To me, Federer is the best player that ever hit a tennis ball on a tennis court. But he can get bett... CLIFF DRYSDALE Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ORSON SCOTT CARD Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. SARAH DESSEN There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he... HENRI MATISSE This can happen, ... The moon is going to be the industrial center of all the things we do in space.... BEN BOVA sorry and love are nothing but just repeated words, it means nothing. It is when you learn to say it... AMIR RIVEROLL That left shoulder really has an aura of its own; it holds everything together. NAVEEN PATNAIK Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, to how it holds you to a plac... SARAH DESSEN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in ev... FERNANDO PESSOA What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth... E.B. WHITE Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space betwe... DAVID WONG If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We ... SHARON WEIL There is nothing too absurd but what authority can be found for it HENRY MANISTRY You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one ... SARAH DESSEN It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. ... SARAH DESSEN The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. TRENTON LEE STEWART To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impa... DENIS DIDEROT When the broken hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be. CHRISTOPHER CHASE I saw that there is no Nature, That Nature doesn’t exist, That there are hills, valleys,... ALBERTO CAEIRO Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn... SARAH DESSEN I'm willing to be patient. You kind of have to go into it not expecting a whole lot. Being a walk-on... BRETT VALENTYN You just gotta have the desire to do something to make it possible. Human beings have that capacity.... CAMILA CUEVAS If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA You can be all that you want to be. Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same tabl... VIKAS KHANNA Life is like a coin. 999, 999 cannot be a million without it. Just like in life, we cannot be truly ... CHERRYL ANNE LINTAG You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... DEYTH BANGER
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SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN