Sarah Dessen Quotes

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

Sarah Dessen

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• I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing, and being the youngest sibling, I wanted to do what he did, so I pushed my parents to let me join.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Parents
  • Year
  • Boxing

• That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Feedback

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• I can't imagine working without and audience.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Working
  • Imagine
  • Without

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Children
  • Parent
  • Security

• My mom was a single parent.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Parent

• I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Want
  • You
  • Aunt

• Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Parent
  • Unhappy
  • Faithful

• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Parent

• But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Parent
  • Meet

• When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Parent

• My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Family
  • Together
  • House

• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • School
  • High
  • Father

• Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • Cousin

• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

  

  Patti Davis
  • America
  • Sibling

• If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Brother

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Music
  • Moments
  • Expression

• Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Service

• I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Parent
  • Imagine
  • Aunt