Sarah Dessen Quotes
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
-
I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
-
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
-
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-
We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
-
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
-
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
-
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
-
There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
-
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
-
In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
-
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.
-
When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
-
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
-
I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
-
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
-
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.
-
If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
-
I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't feel diseased by it. I just think that I enjoy life and life has many offerings. I feel lucky to be able to have a forum to share a lot of these ideas.
-
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
-
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
-
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
