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Sarah Dessen Quotes

Total quotes: 39
“And love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Love Truths
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, SD Quotes, Relationship Advice, Loss, Heartbreak
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Success, Dreams, Hard Work
“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
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: Friend, Best Friends, Friendship, Life, Loneliness
“If what you're asking is how I debated whether or not to love her the answer is I didn't. Not at all. It just happened. I didn't ever question it; by the time I realized what was happening, it was already done.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Falling In Love
“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, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Life Truths
“And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Inspirational, Motivational, Failing, Life Truths
“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love--all kinds-- was really about.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More
Tagged: Love, Love Hurts
“I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“It takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Change
“Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Being Needed
“The chances we take, knowing no better, to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in, protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips...”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Taking Chances, Falling In Love, Holding Back
“What had he said to me that first day? Something about natural chemistry. He claimed he’d noticed it right from the start, and maybe it was an explanation, of sorts, of why we kept coming together, again and again.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love
“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn to know the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Love Truths
“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: True Love, Love, romance, Heartbeat
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big way, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Decision Making, Choices
“But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance... Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Life Truths, Fate, Second Chances
“Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Forever, Uncertainty
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Home, Love, Family, Friends, Relationships, Quality Time
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
— Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
Tagged: weird loving friendship, Friend, The World, Life, ugly, ugliness, Truth, Best Friends, Friendship
“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, Just Listen
“Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, 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. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.”
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Tagged: Music, Memories, Songs
“"Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”
— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
Tagged: Love, First Love
“Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Moon And More
Tagged: Change, Stagnancy, Growth, Chaos, Timing
“'Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, 'You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail... they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.’”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Friendship, Love
“One summer and one boy, and suddenly...things weren’t the same.”
— Sarah Dessen, That Summer
Tagged: Summer Love
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Heartbreak, Love, Breakups
“And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater. But, the love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And thats the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Compromise
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.”
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Tagged: Death, Mourning, Crying
“He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Fear Of Commitment
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