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Sarah Dessen Quotes about Life

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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.

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.

Life, People, Choices

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

Too many locks, not enough keys.

Life, Keys, Locks

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

Life, Falling In Love, Heart

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Love, Life, Positivity

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Inspirational, Life, Thinking

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

Life, Track, Choices

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

Life, Running, Years

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

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Life, Adversity, Perfect

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.

Life, Crazy, Moon

"Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

Life, Real, Stories

Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.226, Penguin

Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

Life, Looks, Pages

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

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Life, Past, Easy

Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

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