Sarah Dessen Quotes

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

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• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Education
  • First

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Christian
  • Belief
  • Fiction

• When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • First
  • Loved
  • Favorite

• The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Best
  • Right
  • Wants

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

  

  Teddy Pendergrass
  • Hurt
  • Public
  • Sure

• Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Society

• Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • She
  • Baby
  • Motherhood

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Men
  • Women

• I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Heart

• The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music
  • Fashion

• Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• I don't know how to cook. I work a lot. So, for me, then, it's important to find a man who can cook. Who will make the house a home more than I can.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Work
  • Important
  • Home

• We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Truth
  • Wish
  • Fall

• My actual friends and family: by the time I get home, I don’t want to talk to anyone I don’t know.

  

  Nick Grimshaw
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talk

• We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Trying
  • Knowledge
  • Know

• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

  

  Jim Walsh
  • Long
  • War

• I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Block