Giving Quotes by Sarah Dessen

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

— Sarah Dessen

I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.

— Sarah Dessen

You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

— Sarah Dessen

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

— Sarah Dessen

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

— Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

— Sarah Dessen

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world…

— Sarah Dessen

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

— Sarah Dessen

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either.…

— Sarah Dessen

Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and…

— Sarah Dessen

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…

— Sarah Dessen

Apologies come in all shapes and sizes. You can give diamonds, candy, flowers, or just your deepest heartfelt sentiment.

— Sarah Dessen

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

— Sarah Dessen

You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him,…

— Sarah Dessen

The basic fact is that no, this isnt ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give…

— Sarah Dessen

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give…

— Sarah Dessen

I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so…

— Sarah Dessen

He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between…

— Sarah Dessen

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as…

— Sarah Dessen

You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole…

— Sarah Dessen

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully…

— Sarah Dessen

Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be…

— Sarah Dessen

I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,…

— Sarah Dessen

For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now,…

— Sarah Dessen

Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given…

— Sarah Dessen

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the…

— Sarah Dessen

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order…

— Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if…

— Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either.…

— Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough…

— Sarah Dessen