Sarah Dessen Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Life, Positivity

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.327, Penguin

• It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, I Hate You

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.244, Penguin

• It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Mean, Views

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.98, Penguin

• That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

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  Life, Death, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.101, Penguin

• Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Ocean, Sea

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.213, Penguin UK

• But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Long, Fit

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.118, Penguin

• Too many locks, not enough keys.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Keys, Locks

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, People, Choices

• Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Choices, Looks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

• It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

• Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Falling In Love, Heart

• Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Eye, Cameras

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.183, Penguin

• Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Past, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

• We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even forever. That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Running, Years

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Track, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

• But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

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  Life, Adversity, Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

• But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Crazy, Moon

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

• Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Looks, Pages

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

• So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Real, Stories

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.226, Penguin

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