Sarah Dessen Quotes

Little hinges swing big doors.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

The things you think that really change your life a lot, don't.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough, fear of not being enough, fear of the future-all these fears and more keep us trapped, repeating the same old patterns and making the same choices over and over again. Fear prevents us from moving outside the comfort-or even the familiar discomfort-of what we know. It's nearly impossible to achieve our highest vision for our lives as long as we are being guided by our fears.

There's nothing as scary as the future.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

When you record something, you never know who's going to hear it.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

Once upon a time, this moment - this last light of the evening the day before the race - was the best moment of the year for me. The anticipation of the game to come. But that was when all I had to lose was my life.

I know peace exists. And we are always changing. It's scary.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.