Quote

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Live
Pay
Matter
Attention
Much
Future
Things
Understand
Never
Past
Time
Stills
Linked
World
Together
Affect
Still
Passed

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
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 it out, the story was really all that mattered.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.
Sarah Dessen
Image
So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
Sarah Dessen
Image
What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.
Sarah Dessen
Image
As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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 proper place.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Okay. Enough. I got out of the closet, brushing myself off, then turned around to face her. This is happening. So you need to go downstairs, face your fears, and make the best of it, and everything will be okay. She narrowed her eyes at me. When did you suddenly become so positive? Just get out of there.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
Sarah Dessen