Sarah Dessen Quotes

You think your life is going one way and then suddenly, you're on another track.

I never expected that this would be my life.

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

I didn't ever intend to or want to be an actor. I'm not one of those people of whom they say, 'If you can't live without it, that's the only reason you should be an actor.' It was kind of a sideline that became my whole life.

I'm not gonna squeal out that this is my 23rd retirement, my real, real retirement. But you know there comes a time where you need to look to go in another direction in life, and I have entered that time.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

There's still time to change the road you're on...

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.