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Sarah Dessen Quotes - Page 3

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

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

Life, Choices, Looks

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

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 out of fear.

Love, Inspirational, Strong

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

Thinking, Said, Plans

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.173, Penguin

My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?

Relationship, Couple, Individual Differences

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.209, Penguin

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

Determination, Work Out, Trying

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.210, Penguin

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Falling In Love, Blow, Hair

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

Self, Feelings, Together

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.14, Penguin

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

Nice, People, Giving

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.259, Penguin

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.

Writing, Thinking, People

Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Song, Strong, Connections

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

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

Running, Teacher, School

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.100, Penguin

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

Life, Eye, Cameras

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.183, Penguin

She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere.

Summer, Confused, Eye

Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

People, Stories, Pieces

Sarah Dessen (2007). “Just Listen”, p.406, Penguin UK

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Life, Death, Thinking

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.101, Penguin

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

Relationship, Girlfriend, Scare

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.183, Penguin

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

Home, People, House

"What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

Nice, Mean, Worry

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.12, Penguin

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Disappointment, World, Shifting

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.134, Penguin

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

Life, Long, Fit

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.118, Penguin

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.

Ugly, Lasts, Moments

Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.116, Penguin

I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered.

Stories, Ends, Harder

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

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

Relationship, Mom, Dad

"What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Able, Complicated, Enough

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.65, Penguin

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.

Matter, Stranger, Disappoint

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.7, Penguin

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