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Stories Quotes by Sarah Dessen
- So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,…
- I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got…
- Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people…
- funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
- An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have…
- So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.
- See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was an across-a-crowded-room kind…
- Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these…
- The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down…
- Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it…
- Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part…
- There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing…
- But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
- 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…
- But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
- All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill…
- It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to…
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- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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- As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison,… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe