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Trying Quotes by Sarah Dessen
- Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
- I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him…
- I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to…
- 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,…
- I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who…
- As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone…
- Theres this other half of him i dont know of, its like he is trying it keep it a secret.... if he would just let…
- There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
- I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if…
- 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,…
- Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions, the back-and-forth and…
- Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering…
- I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last…
- But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep…
- Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?
- Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?
- In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.'…
- So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I could feel myself…
- She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells…
- You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
- So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the…
- And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in…
- Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash