Sarah Dessen Quotes

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

She was the first woman who left me. (on his former wife, Rachel Hunter, shortly after their break-up)

This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

But she's ditched Dean!

When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.

It happens all the time! People are always talking about that explosive moment in their family history that sort of changed everything and rattled the cage, and more times than not it has nothing to do with trans issues. That's why people are relating to the show Transparent, because our family is their family and they understand that dynamic.

When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.