Sarah Dessen Quotes

The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

Sarah Dessen

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Government
  • Powerful
  • Turkey

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Laugh
  • Out
  • Loud

• Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Like
  • Always
  • Someone

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Question

• You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Start

• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Style
  • Movies
  • Bag

• My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Friend
  • Positive

• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Childhood
  • Hiding
  • Drop

• I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Church
  • I Was Raised

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • World
  • Reading
  • Always

• It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Doubt
  • Journey

• I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Work
  • Study
  • Seriously

• By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Education
  • Training

• Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• So I guess I'll remain the same. Sittin' here restin' my bones. Wish this loneliness would leave me alone. For 2,000 miles I roamedJust to make this dock my home. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Girl
  • Competition
  • Australia

• We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Baby

• I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them off to Brittany. It's divine. I'm quite exceptionally lucky. I've never had a week without having all three of my daughters on the telephone.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Children
  • Baby
  • Grandmother

• Nutbeem influenced a little by the lunar cycle. Had a touch of werewolf. At full moon he burst, talked himself dry, took exercise in the form of dancing and fighting at the Starlight Lounge, then slowly fell back to contemplation.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Fighting
  • Exercise
  • Moon

• When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.

  

  Lizzo
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Awesome

• The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Baby
  • Expression