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 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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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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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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A humorist doesn't really do that much note-taking.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.
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I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
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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.
