Quotes by Sarah Dessen

About Sarah Dessen:

Sarah Dessen is an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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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.

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The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

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... Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.

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I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

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the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

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Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” Wes: “How do you win?” he asked Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing; it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and la...

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If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.

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Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about fo...

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Like maybe it's forever, maybe it's not

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Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.

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Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

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Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?" I ate another piece of waffle. "When my dad first died, all I could think about was that day. It's taken me so long to be able to think back to before tha...

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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

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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.

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But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.

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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.

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If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

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Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

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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 l...

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Author Bio

  • NameSarah Dessen
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 6, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist