Sarah Dessen Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Understanding, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.107, Penguin

• See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Understanding

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

• But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our shared world as possible. I was suposed to be her other half, carrying my share of the weight. In the last few weeks, I'd tried to shed it, and doing so sent everything off kilter. So of course she would pull me tighter, keeping me in my place, because doing so meant she would always be sure, somehow, of her own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Understanding, Together

• You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an expression of quiet understanding on her face. "Maybe you didn't, though," she said softly. "Lose it, I mean." "Lissa." "No, just hear me out." She looked out at the road for a second, then back at me. "Maybe, you just misplaced it, you know? It's been there. But you just haven't been looking in the right spot. Because lost means forever, it's gone. But misplaced... that means it's still around, somewhere. Just not where you thought.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Expression, Long

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