Sarah Dessen Quotes

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome.

Nobody wants to be somewhere that doesn't want them.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.

We are each the love of someone's life.

I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

i've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

It is love alone that counts.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

Love is the salt of life.

To me, love has always meant friendship.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.