Sarah Dessen Quotes

You never say never. There's always a chance to do things in the future.

Hopefully I can take my chances when I get them.

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Our chances are always pretty good

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

Where one door shuts another opens.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Love changes what is probable and makes unlikely things possible

We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

You know, never say never.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

And maybe, just maybe, it will.

Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.