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Sarah Dessen Quotes

Total quotes: 63
“Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It’s, like, part of you for good.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Love, Part of you, Always, Staying, Memories
“You can’t make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Commitment
“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Endless Summer, Possibility
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Keeping Things To Yourself, Holding Back, Silence
“You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.”
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Tagged: Falling Apart, Sadness, Friends, Trust
“It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Tagged: Expectations, Impressions, Free Yourself
“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Flaws, Uniqueness, Interaction, Imprefections
“This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Listening, Being Heard
“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.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: difference, Uniqueness, Love
“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Tagged: Missing You, Breakups, H4D-2
“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, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, lesson in love, love & life, Love & Relationships
“It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More
Tagged: Changes, embrace change, That's life
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Facing Reality, Experience, Courage, Being Strong, Overcoming problems, Living, Living Boldly, Life
“Writing has ALWAYS been hard for me, both when I had all the time in the world and none at all. That doesn't change. Never want to do it, but always happy that I did.”
— Sarah Dessen
Tagged: Writing, Writer's Truth, writer's experience, writing experience, Inspiring
“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Love, Decisions, helpless
“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Relationships Ending
“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 you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Just Listen, Sarah Dessen, Moments, Healing, Passage Of Time
“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. For some people, it's love.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Strong, Strength And Courage, Weakness, Love
“This moment was real too, even if you couldn't tell at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look, to tell.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“It's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.”
— Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
Tagged: Thank You
“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Emptiness, Empty, Alone
“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Miss you, Needing, H4D-10
“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Life, Screwups, humanity
“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Changes, scary, Love
“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.”
— Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
Tagged: Sarah Dessen Quotes, Sarah Dessen, Respect, Deserve
“If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future.It's all linked together.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Past and Future, Regret, Mistakes, forgiveness
“Being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: kindness, Too Nice, Relationship, unique, different
“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.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Loss, Death, Mourning
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Falling In Love, Love, real love
“That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”
— Sarah Dessen, First Love Quotes and Sayings, Cute Short Status About First Love - Short Status Quotes
Tagged: Love, First Love
“But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Happiness, Good Enough
“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Grief, Death
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Leap of Faith, Trust, Taking Chances
“Don't change for a guy, ever. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Changing, Dating, H4D-48
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Love Songs, Music
“But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Life Truths, Do-overs, opportunities
“And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Sarah Dessen Quotes, Sarah Dessen, Relationships
“Just because a person isn't talking about something doesn't mean it's not on their mind. Often, in fact, it's why they won't speak of it.”
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Tagged: Saint Anything, Speak Now, Pain, Hiding Pain
“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Tagged: Lonely, Friends, Strangers
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