Sarah Dessen Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Self, Feelings, Together

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.14, Penguin

• I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Book, Writing

• You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hippie, Feelings, Action

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

• I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

  Sarah Dessen

  Loneliness, Insomnia, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.156, Penguin

• And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Running, Voice

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.216, Penguin

• He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sadness, Mirrors, Light

• It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Feelings, Realizing, Sinking

• Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.

  Sarah Dessen

  Powerful, Opportunity, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.23, Penguin

• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

• From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Sky, Feelings

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.193, Penguin UK

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