Sarah Dessen Quotes
"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
-
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
-
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
-
I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.
-
The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
-
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
-
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
-
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
-
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
-
I wanted to see the score! What do you got to do that's so important? You can't join the religious cult with me!
-
I would love to go back to Broadway.
-
I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
-
In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.
-
It's a crazy busy schedule, but I still have two hours a day for school because it's a priority.
-
I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
-
Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.
-
My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.
-
My favorite movie is 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' with Clint Eastwood, a guy who gets his family killed by the bad guys then goes on a journey of revenge, eventually discovering himself - very existential.
-
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
-
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
-
We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
-
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
-
Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.
-
"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.
