Sarah Dessen Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, People, Forever

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.45, Penguin

• Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Strong, Connections

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

• Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Memories, Book

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

• funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story

  Sarah Dessen

  Beautiful, Song, Stories

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

• You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Song, Reason

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.155, Penguin

• But for now, I just sat there on the bed and listened to my song. The one that had been written for me by a man who knew me not at all, now sung by the one who knew me best.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Men, Bed

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.231, Penguin

• Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Stories, Glances

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.165, Penguin

• It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Children, Memories

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.156, Penguin

• The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, Dad, Home

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, May 10, 2011.

• It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

  Sarah Dessen

  Song, People, Tunes

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.79, Penguin

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