Sarah Dessen Quotes

What was once your pain, will be your home.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

I honestly think the biggest trials end up teaching you how to let go.

I think I've been through all the phases of the sport. I won, I lost, I got injured. Now I get to do what I love, with my truth, without worrying about what people will say or things like that.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

You’ll be fine. You’re 25. Feeling [unsure] and lost is part of your path. Don’t avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it. take a breath. You’ll be okay. Even if you don’t feel okay all the time.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I came to love, I came into my own.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.