Sarah Dessen Quotes

I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend’s lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass’s was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.

Sarah Dessen

• Thinking
• Girl
• Perfect
• Wonder
• Easy
• Laughing
• Assuming

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• I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Barbie

• In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

  

  Ovid
  • Matter
  • Easy
  • Anybody

• If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Fans

• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Long
  • May
  • Perfect

• May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • May
  • Perfect

• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Game
  • Girl

• Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Forever

• You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Yourself
  • Easy
  • Decisions

• I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Rainbow

• Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Island

• It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.

  

  Lindsay Mendez
  • Up
  • Girl

• There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I think Calvin is so beautiful. Oscar De La Renta is so classic. I really like the Rodarte girl; they are super-inventive, and they think outside the box. I am all over the place!

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Girl

• I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • World
  • Fun
  • Girl

• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Choices
  • Communication
  • Citizenship

• & I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Money
  • Funny

• I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Up

• Conscience is better served by a myth.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith

• I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriend’s lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cass’s was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Perfect