Sarah Dessen Quotes

That's been a huge recurring thing in growing up - allowing two things to exist in the same space even though, instinctively, they might not be designated to.

It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other.

There's many sides to a coin and one person can in fact do a lot of different things.

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I mesh with anyone.

I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

I feel I need a lot of contrast, so I have all these things happening, but they're all necessary to make me feel satisfied. It's got to be this big pot happening, with everything boiling at once.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

I've always been a firm believer that you don't have to close one door in order to open another.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I want to be versatile.

There's light and dark in all things, you know?

I'm very versatile, very dynamic, and I can work around in a lot of places.

Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many things at once, you can end up with problems.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.