Sarah Dessen Quotes

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response.

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

I know he would die if you died, Luce

Nut shrugged. "Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family . . . is it not?

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Of course, there are days when you're not feeling your best and you still have to stand up there and it can be difficult. But those days pass and you move on.

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?