Sarah Dessen Quotes

What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?

In every parting there is an image of death.

Death's in the good-bye.

When the music stopped, it could have been forever since we'd begun. My grandfather took a step back, and the light grew yellow at his back. 'I'm going,' he said. 'Where?' I asked. 'Don't worry, sweetheart. You're so close.' He turned and walked away, disappearing rapidly into spots and dust. Infinity.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

I do not expect to see home again, though that is what I want.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Death always seems to be around me.

Death is a weird thing.

I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.