Quote

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Thing
Romance
Trying
Picture
Going
Single
Think
Full
Thinking
Show
Life
Shows
True
Part
Representation

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
It was just perfect, just right all at once.
Sarah Dessen
Image
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
Image
It was just one of those things, I said, You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
Sarah Dessen
Image
There are worse addictions than reality TV, chocolate and coffee.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
Sarah Dessen
Image
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 the space she'd left behind.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I always thought I was different.
Sarah Dessen
Image
its been a long night aren't they all?
Sarah Dessen
Image
If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I wasn’t ready to think about the other yet: that it wasn’t that I wasn’t right for Macon, but that maybe he wasn’t right for me. There was a difference. Even for someone who things didn’t come easy for, someone like me.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
No, no, no to Tallyho.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38
Sarah Dessen