Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
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
Options
Nice
Take
Even
More quotes by Sarah Dessen
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
You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.
Sarah Dessen
Some things don't last forever, but some things do.
Sarah Dessen
It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
Sarah Dessen
You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
Sarah Dessen
I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.
Sarah Dessen
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.
Sarah Dessen
It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn't bother to get too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.
Sarah Dessen
You just had to know where to look.
Sarah Dessen
But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.
Sarah Dessen
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 ride.
Sarah Dessen
Conciseness is underrated
Sarah Dessen
There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.
Sarah Dessen
You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
Sarah Dessen
How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.
Sarah Dessen
Too many locks, not enough keys.
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
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
Sarah Dessen
I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check. -Cora
Sarah Dessen
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.
Sarah Dessen