Sarah Dessen Quotes

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

Can't get away from your own self.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

Everyone fears and courts his own demon.

I believe there's a killer in all of us. I know there's one inside me. When you know the killer in you and you know also that you do not want to kill, you have to set yourself upon a course of learning. Not to kill that killer then, but to control it.

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.