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.
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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.
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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.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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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.
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Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
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My job means I work late.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?
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To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.
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When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.
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I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
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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.
