Sarah Dessen Quotes

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.