Sarah Dessen Quotes

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

Listen to me. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what any of this means. But I know this much. It doesn’t matter. You’re not one of them. You never were. You’re not theirs. You’re mine.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.

Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?

I grew up with a great sense of insecurity in figuring out what I was and where I belonged.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.