Sarah Dessen Quotes

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.

There are always loose ends in real life.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

Life is so unlike theory.

This life is messy.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.