Sarah Dessen Quotes
I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
Sarah Dessen
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
Hailey Bieber
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
Maggie Smith
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One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
Kai Bird
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
Laura Prepon
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Irwin Shaw
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I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive.
Charlie Parker
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Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn, and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked placed on high,
In pride and robes of honor shine.
But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
Thy sanctuary taught me so,
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.
Isaac Watts
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The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
Hamilton Leithauser
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Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.
Nolan Bushnell
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
Gary Cherone
Van Halen
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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
Sarah Dessen
