Sarah Dessen Quotes

The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

One by one I have seen obstacles removed, errors corrected, prejudices softened, proscriptions relinquished, and my people advancing in all the elements that go to make up the sum of the general welfare. And I remember that God reigns in eternity, and that whatever delays, whatever disappointments and discouragements may come, truth, justice, liberty and humanity will ultimately prevail.

Roberta Jacobson is in charge of a department within the State Department with which, on other occasions, I have had problems with regarding the answers they gave me.

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their dreams didn't come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true. A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.

In all my life I'd never been approached this way, the car pulling up, the Where you going? It was something I wish had happened hundreds of times. I was a looker - someone who looked over at every car at every traffic light, hoping something would happen, and almost never finding anyone looking back - always everyone looking forwards, and every time I felt stupid. Why should people look at you? Why should they care?

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

"Do you want my honest opinion?" People ask. I say, "Yes," for I'm curious. So they give me their honest opinion, And I - well, I'm always furious.

Waiters will always pee in soup, people will always fall in love.

The people who should be here aren’t. The ones who should be smiling with me aren’t here.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.