Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.
Sarah Dessen
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Fear
Awake
Death
Keeps
Night
Regret
Real
Answer
Mean
Failure
Clowns
Something
Says
Clown
Like
Answers
Nights
Existence
Questioning
More quotes by Sarah Dessen
It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.
Sarah Dessen
Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
Sarah Dessen
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.
Sarah Dessen
I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.
Sarah Dessen
Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.
Sarah Dessen
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
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.
Sarah Dessen
My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
Sarah Dessen
There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
Sarah Dessen
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
Sarah Dessen
Some things don't last forever, but some things do.
Sarah Dessen
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
Sarah Dessen
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
Sarah Dessen
I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.
Sarah Dessen
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.
Sarah Dessen
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after we'd made it safely to the walkway and gone our separate ways to classes. How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if i fell, at least i wouldn't do it alone.
Sarah Dessen
And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
Sarah Dessen
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
Sarah Dessen
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. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
Sarah Dessen
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
Sarah Dessen