Sarah Dessen Quotes

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.'

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.