Sarah Dessen Quotes

It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.

You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

I was thinking about the armor, personally. I think it would go great in my hometown. I don't know. I'm not sure. Hopefully.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

At the moment, I'm certainly not thinking 'never again', but neither am I thinking 'I can't wait to play that part again'. I'm somewhere in between.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.

When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!

We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.