Sarah Dessen Quotes
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.
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The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
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The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh.
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An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter.
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The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
