Sarah Dessen Quotes

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

You know, most people really don't know me.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.

I wondered how I looked to her, in that place, and knew that even in a place that was nothing but knowledge that was the one thing I could not know. That if I look inward I would see only infinite mirrors staring into myself for eternity.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

The seen and seeing softly mutually strike Their glass barrier that arrests the sight. But the world's being hides in the volcanoes And the foul history pressed into its core; And to myself my being is my childhood And passion and entrails and the roots of senses; I'm pressed into the inside of a mask At the back of love, the back of air, the back of light.

In my long and colorful career, one thing stands out: I have been misunderstood.

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

The only thing I wish I could figure out is how I got misunderstood regarding the type of person I really am and what I accomplished.

The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country.

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself and she had - her heart.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.