Parenting Quotes by Sarah Dessen

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

— Sarah Dessen

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

— Sarah Dessen

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

— Sarah Dessen

“There's a difference between the words father and dad . And it's more than three words.”

— Sarah Dessen

This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed…

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My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full…

— Sarah Dessen

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to…

— Sarah Dessen

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life…

— Sarah Dessen

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this…

— Sarah Dessen

“Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her to…

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

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And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June,…

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My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was…

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“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all…

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“I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was…

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I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was…

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My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as…

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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in…

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“Once this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when…

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I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies,…

— Sarah Dessen

“I stood there for a moment, studying each of us, taking in Kirstens's smile, Whitney's haunting gaze, the way my mother cocked…

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Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household,…

— Sarah Dessen

“Nothing‟s going to change, Jamie had said that day, but I‟d known even then this wasn‟t true. My mother had always been…

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So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I…

— 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

“More than anyone in that room, I was aware of exactly the sort of person who did such a thing. What I…

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“God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline said. 'Our past. I'm tired of acting…

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“On my way to the living room, where my family was gathered, I stopped to look at the photo in the foyer.…

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I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but…

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I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it…

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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her…

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The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them…

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Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he…

— Sarah Dessen

“Explain it to me." But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would…

— Sarah Dessen