Sarah Dessen Quotes

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.

Things have a way of falling into place.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

It is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

When you talk to people in retrospect, they always say the casting was a no-brainer, but nothing really is. You have to have so many things line up. I'm very grateful that it worked out.

In life, things do not always stay the same. There are certain alchemies that marry together at particular moments in particular places with particular people.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.

A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.

The right timing is not always our timing.

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate.

I always say there are no coincidences.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."