Sarah Dessen Quotes

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

I was raised in an environment where chaos was the norm, so I was at my best in chaos.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it any other way.

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

This life is messy.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.