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Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Acceptance Age Balance Beach Bike Challenges Children Choices Coffee Commitment Dad Determination Disappointment Divorce Doubt Eating Failing Fate Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Giving Up Goodbye Grief Grieving Growing Up Heart High School Home House Hurt Inspirational Kissing Language Leaving Liars Life Listening Love Lying Memories Mom Moon Morning Past Planning Reading Regret Risk Running Sadness School Self Esteem Silence Sleep Struggle Students Summer Understanding Waiting Walking Water Work Out Worry Writing

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Beautiful, Self Esteem, World

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.217, Penguin

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

Missing Someone, Needs, Worst

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.73, Penguin

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

People, Want, Sometimes

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Lock and Key”, p.288, Penguin UK

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Music, Peace, People

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.96, Penguin

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Grief, Anchors, Bereavement

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.129, Penguin

Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.

Differences, Easy, Bigs

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.96, Penguin

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

Failure, Screw Ups, Sometimes

"Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2009.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

Inspirational, Judging, Sometimes

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Grief, Grieving, Sorrow

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Giving, World, Tricks

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

People, Weak, Accepting

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.230, Penguin

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

Perfect

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.7, Penguin

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Love, Romantic, Valentine

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.252, Penguin

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Thinking, Minutes, Happens

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.95, Penguin

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Self, Brave, World

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.

Space, Together, Middle

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.333, Penguin

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.

People, Answers, Problem

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.54, Penguin

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

Believe, Eye, Waiting

Sarah Dessen (2011). “Last Chance”, p.140, Hachette UK

Silence is so freaking loud

Inspirational, Silence, Loud

"Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 6, 2006.

I always thought I was different.

Different

And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.

Know Me, Knows

Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

Life, Mean, Views

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Acceptance, Tolerance, Accepting

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.142, Penguin UK

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

Life, Ocean, Sea

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.213, Penguin UK

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.244, Penguin

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