Sarah Dessen Quotes

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

I'll never be ready. Yet at the same time, you always want to reach the end. You can't fly to a destination and linger in the air. I want to reach the end of this thing, and I feel terrible about it.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

April is a promise of what's to come.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.