Sarah Dessen Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
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.
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
Are you crazy? Flirting with Eli
Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood's house, while eating Belissa Norwood's
cupcakes?
Stock in front of Belissa Norwood, in Belissa Norwood's house, while eating Belissa Norwood's
cupcakes?
We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
This lost, loose feeling that no consequence could be so harmful as the sense of staying where you were, or of being who you are.
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
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.
All I could think was that here, finally, for once, I wasn't only watching and reporting but part of this moving, changing world as well.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying? At
I knew that it wouldn't last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.
I'd been caught up in some wild cyclone, like Dorothy throw into Oz, with not a good witch in sight to save me.
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.
You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes
It was strange, telling the story from the beginning instead of catching someone up on only the latest awful chapter.
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
I tried to see it as bringing things full circle. I'd left and, in doing so, fractured myself. By returning, I'd be able to be whole again.
But it was one thing to be cold over distance, another entirely when they were in your same zip code.
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.
Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?" I asked him.
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?
He looked at me and then said, "You're here, aren't you?
I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy ...
Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
But sometimes I longed for that sense of someone pulling me close, feeling another heartbeat against mine.
You really get to meet people on such a personal level. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you.
Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?
Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
Dexter: You're here, aren't you?
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.
Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.