Sarah Dessen Quotes

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

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

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

You'll never, eever, be the same, again!

If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

I think I can change the game.

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

When success comes, it changes everything, so I'm interested in portraying what that's like, and I think I have a lot of connection with that.

I'm getting to use my platform as the Bachelorette - on my season - to really make change through my experience.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting on all who come into contact with the ripple.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

For me, I want to change the way people see the world. That's why I do what I do...with every email, text message, and every phone call that I get with people saying "Man what you've done God has used it to change me" that's when I see success.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

One choice can transform you!

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.