Sarah Dessen Quotes

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• Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.
• Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved.…
• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in…
• It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything.…
• 'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
• Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
• I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is…
• I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going…
• You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill…
• The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.
• I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
• I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing…
• It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written)…
• I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
• I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
• There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
• Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
• Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.
• Don't think or judge, just listen.
• I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

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