Sarah Dessen Quotes

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

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• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

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• But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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  • Humans
  • Selfish