Want Quotes by Sarah Dessen

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

— Sarah Dessen

“I hate not having what I want”

— Sarah Dessen

“I don't want everything to change.”

— Sarah Dessen

“I want the white one”

— Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

— Sarah Dessen

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

— Sarah Dessen

“You can't be together, which is exactly why you want to be.”

— Sarah Dessen

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

— Sarah Dessen

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

— Sarah Dessen

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

— Sarah Dessen

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

— Sarah Dessen

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

— Sarah Dessen

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come.…

— Sarah Dessen

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

— Sarah Dessen

I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your…

— Sarah Dessen

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now;…

— Sarah Dessen

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you…

— Sarah Dessen

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want…

— Sarah Dessen

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

— Sarah Dessen

It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement?…

— Sarah Dessen

I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined,…

— 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

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in…

— Sarah Dessen

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world…

— Sarah Dessen

“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you…

— 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

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak…

— Sarah Dessen

See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was…

— Sarah Dessen

That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect."…

— Sarah Dessen

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

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to…

— Sarah Dessen

So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need…

— Sarah Dessen

And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping…

— Sarah Dessen

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

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

— Sarah Dessen

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least…

— Sarah Dessen

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in…

— Sarah Dessen