Sarah Dessen Quotes

The changes were inevitable and one has to accept them gracefully

Get used to disappointment.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is.

Change is inevitable. Why hold onto what you have to let go of?

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

The only thing we can depend on in life is that everything changes. The seasons, our partners, what we want and need. We hold hands with out high school friends and swear to never lose touch, and then we do.Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to control what cannot be controlled. I am tired of denying myself what I want for fear of breaking things I cannot fix. They will break no matter what we do.

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter.

Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That's when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.