Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
Sarah Dessen quotes about
passing-by glances passings
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.
endless
Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.
daughter thinking matter
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
principles theory ifs
That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
who-i-am might way
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.
sweat perfect want
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
filling-up space empty
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
cupcakes want said
You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.
quests
I told you, everyone understands a quest.
sight keys looks
You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.
you-choose
…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
path checklists made
But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
realization care pages
Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199
breakup world weird-things
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.