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Sarah Dessen Quotes about Hurt

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Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Hurt, Answers, Sometimes

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.53, Penguin

Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.

Love, Faith, Hurt

Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.187, Hachette UK

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

Hurt, First Love, Boys

"That Summer". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1996.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

Hurt, First Love, Once In A Lifetime

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

He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

Hurt, Boys, Fifteen

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

I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

Hurt, Eyebrows, Scar

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.181, Penguin

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Hurt, Life Sucks, Tipping

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.87, Penguin

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

Hurt, Riding, Enough

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.228, Penguin

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Hurt, Knowing, People

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.60, Penguin

"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

Hurt, Lying, Liars

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

I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone." Yeah," he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, "but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't." I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. "Yeah," I said. "But it's not all about chance, either.

Hurt, Home, Opening Up

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.187, Penguin

"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

Hurt, Jason, Would Be

"The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Friendship, Hurt, Honest

I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

Hurt, Taken, Hands

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.218, Penguin

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

Hurt, People, Kind

Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.237, Penguin UK

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

Hurt, Games, Next

Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.320, Penguin

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

Hurt, Lying, Sometimes

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.110, Penguin

Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

Hurt, Eye, Found

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.332, Penguin

Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier.

Break Up, Breakup, Hurt

Sarah Dessen (2011). “This Lullaby”, p.167, Hachette UK

It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine." There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. "And good hair never hurt either.

Hurt, Believe, Eye

We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's basic.

Hurt, Long, Limits

"Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

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