Sarah Dessen Quotes

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

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• I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Myself
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Show

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Life
  • School
  • Book

• If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Go
  • Companies

• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
  • Artist
  • Save

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Dream
  • Movies
  • Made

• When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Trump
  • Silent

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Boy
  • Being
  • Franchise

• In exasperation, I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I'll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like. (ca. 1921)

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Grandmother

• Without being disrespectful to Jimmy Kelly, I'd rather fight Shane Mosley than Jimmy Kelly.

  

  Liam Smith

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Time
  • Love
  • True