Sarah Dessen Quotes
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this?
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
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Worship is adoring contemplation of God.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
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Of course, recognising our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
