Sarah Dessen Quotes

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

In order to find, you must first search.

To find is the thing.

Being lost is worth the being found.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can’t be found.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Who seeks shall find.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

I'm on a search for the truth.

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

The farther you go, the less you know.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.