Sarah Dessen Quotes

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand, what you think you understand, what you understand...They are ten possibilities that we might have some problem communicating. But let's try anyway...

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death." "He wasn't," Ronnie assured him. "I'm just saying how it looked." She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don't understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don't have the courage to ask questions.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

A fear is just a lie that you've rehearsed so many times you believe it's true.

Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing

We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.

I don't think Muslims do hate America. I think that's what we hear and that's what we believe. I don't think that's true.