World Quotes by Sarah Dessen

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

— Sarah Dessen

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

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In midair, dangling lost above the world.

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But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

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Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

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“But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.”

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In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you…

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I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with…

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Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only…

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Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from…

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Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could…

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There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn…

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There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from…

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This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe…

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One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa…

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I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he…

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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can…

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

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

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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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But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other,…

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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of…

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The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry…

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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things…

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But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while…

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And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their…

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for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

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Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

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Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for…

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How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't…

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Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

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But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

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It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but…

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

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There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

— Sarah Dessen