Sarah Dessen Quotes

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

So, do you live around here often?

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't

Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?” “Suitable.” “So is Waxillium,” Wayne added. They all turned to him. “You know,” he said. “He’s wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Why do you even put up with me?' 'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Don't pretend to care. I don't need you as an anesthetic.

It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.

He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said. Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.

No, it was honest," said Harry. "One of the only honest things you've said to me. You don't care whether I live or die, but you do care that I help you convince everyone you're winning the war against Voldemort.

People in the business always say, "You look fabulous." You get that all the time and it kind of goes in one ear and out the other because most of the time they just say that to make you feel good. It's nice when you hear it from an ordinary person and then I appreciate it.

He took a deep, shuddering breath. "Okay. I said it, it's out there. And I am fine now. So let's move on, shall we? What's the plan?

Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.' -Emily Wilcox

Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.

"I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not." he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.

Like Cammie is fine," Macey said, then glanced at me. "No offense." "None taken," I said. "I think.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

On the Continent there is one topic which should be avoided-the weather; in England, if you do not repeat the phrase "Lovely day, isn't it?" at least two hundred times a day, you are considered a bit dull.

I am well in body although considerably rumpled up in spirit, thank you, ma'am,' said Anne gravely. Then aside to Marilla in an audible whisper, 'There wasn't anything startling in that, was there, Marilla?

The problem is that I know the textbook answers to any question you care to ask.