Sarah Dessen Quotes

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Sarah Dessen

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• 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.

  

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• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

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• I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

  

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• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

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• If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Boy
  • Other