110+ Sarah Dessen Quotes On Romantic, Empowering And Refreshing

Sarah Dessen is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known for her coming-of-age stories that focus on the struggles of teenage girls. Her books often feature characters dealing with family issues, first love, and self-discovery. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sarah Dessen on love, romantic, empowering.

Top 10 Sarah Dessen Quotes

1. There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
2. Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
3. You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
4. Don't think or judge, just listen.
5. It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
6. Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
7. If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
8. Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.
9. Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
10. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Sarah Dessen Short Quotes

• Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
• You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
• She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.
• Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.
• It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
• Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
• The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
• "It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will."
• It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
• Too many locks, not enough keys.

Sarah Dessen Quotes About Love

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear. — Sarah Dessen

I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say. — Sarah Dessen

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

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside — Sarah Dessen

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. — Sarah Dessen

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. — Sarah Dessen

I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once. — Sarah Dessen

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it. — 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

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. — Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Quotes About Place

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all. — Sarah Dessen

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. — Sarah Dessen

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. — Sarah Dessen

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment. — Sarah Dessen

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand. — Sarah Dessen

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go. — Sarah Dessen

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place. — Sarah Dessen

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

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell. — Sarah Dessen

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too. — Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Quotes About Lullaby

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference. — Sarah Dessen

This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on. — Sarah Dessen

Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on. — Sarah Dessen

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together. — Sarah Dessen

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there. — Sarah Dessen

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote — Sarah Dessen

Love can make up for a lot. — Sarah Dessen

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. — Sarah Dessen

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

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place. — Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Quotes About Friend

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return. — Sarah Dessen

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose. — Sarah Dessen

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie — Sarah Dessen

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose. — Sarah Dessen

Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out. — Sarah Dessen

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think. — Sarah Dessen

Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once. — Sarah Dessen

It's never long distance between friends. — Sarah Dessen

Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay? — Sarah Dessen

My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was there, my parents, everybody I worked with, all my friends. So I had this great first reading with a like hundred people there. — Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Famous Quotes And Sayings

You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one. — Sarah Dessen

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking. — Sarah Dessen

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. — Sarah Dessen

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive. — Sarah Dessen

I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there. — Sarah Dessen

So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well. — Sarah Dessen

Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon — 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

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever. — Sarah Dessen

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. — Sarah Dessen

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown. — Sarah Dessen

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage. — Sarah Dessen

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot. — Sarah Dessen

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count. — Sarah Dessen

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever. — Sarah Dessen

We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone's eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves. — Sarah Dessen

call it chicken salad — Sarah Dessen

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going. — Sarah Dessen

My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones... you might as well hold on to them. You know? — Sarah Dessen

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

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances. — Sarah Dessen

Sure, there was no guarantee any of these things would actually happen as he envisioned. But maybe that wasn‟t the point.It was the planning that counted, whether it ever came to fruition or not. — Sarah Dessen

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you. — Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. — Sarah Dessen

I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me. — Sarah Dessen

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away. — 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

The truth about forever is that it is happening right now. — Sarah Dessen

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore. — Sarah Dessen

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise. — Sarah Dessen

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story — Sarah Dessen

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered. — Sarah Dessen

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below. — Sarah Dessen

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store. — Sarah Dessen

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. — Sarah Dessen

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good. — Sarah Dessen

Silence is so freaking loud — Sarah Dessen

Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. — Sarah Dessen

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling. — 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. — Sarah Dessen

You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off. — Sarah Dessen

You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity. — 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

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart. — Sarah Dessen

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot. — Sarah Dessen

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

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose. — Sarah Dessen

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you. — Sarah Dessen

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required. — Sarah Dessen

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school. — Sarah Dessen

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. — Sarah Dessen

It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters. — Sarah Dessen

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to. — Sarah Dessen

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. — Sarah Dessen

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 truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them. — Sarah Dessen

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again! — Sarah Dessen

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. — Sarah Dessen

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, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again! — Sarah Dessen

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking. — 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

But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse? — Sarah Dessen

Life Lessons by Sarah Dessen

1. Sarah Dessen teaches us to be brave and to take risks in order to grow and find our true selves.
2. She encourages us to be kind and understanding of others and to recognize that everyone has their own unique story.
3. Her stories also remind us that it's important to be honest with ourselves and to take time to appreciate the people and things in our lives.