Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.
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So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
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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.
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I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it
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It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.
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But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
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No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.
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It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
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I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.
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It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.
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We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
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Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.
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Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.
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I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.
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My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there.
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It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.
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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know?
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Conciseness is underrated
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One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was a door. With Kirsten, it was the front one to our house, through which she was always coming in or out, usually in mid-sentence, a gaggle of friends trailing behind her. Whitney’s was the one to her bedroom, which she preferred to keep shut between her and the rest of us, always.
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Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.