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Place Quotes by Sarah Dessen
- 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…
- 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.
- Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt…
- Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back…
- If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place,…
- And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
- The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have…
- You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the…
- Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
- A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was---"Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just…
- When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features…
- You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the…
- But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our…
- I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
- Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family,…
- Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.…
- There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else…
- The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already.…
- n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years ago, I feel…
- In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
- I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
- I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its…
- Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could…
- Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe…
More Place Quotes
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- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden