Sarah Dessen Quotes about Waiting

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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

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.

Sarah Dessen

Believe, Eye, Waiting

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

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.

Sarah Dessen

Waiting, Over You, Finishing

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

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.

Sarah Dessen

Book, Color, Waiting

Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.20, Penguin

Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.

Sarah Dessen

Opposites, Waiting, Wish

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.98, Penguin

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

Sarah Dessen

Thinking, Waiting, Chance

Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.176, Penguin

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.

Sarah Dessen

Waiting, Sound, Kind

Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.25, Penguin

My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

Sarah Dessen

Mother, Knowing, Waiting

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

There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.

Sarah Dessen

Keys, Waiting, Missing

Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.182, Penguin