Sarah Dessen Quotes

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

As actors, it's so hard to get your hopes up about anything.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.