Sarah Dessen Quotes

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

You're surprised by something, but you don't really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don't really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

All of life is a foreign country.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

It is not easy to distinguish reality from illusion, especially when one lives in a period of the great upheaval.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

Dude, are my eyes seeing what my brain is telling my eyes that they're seeing?

As in, I wouldn't know normal if it marched up and poked me in the eye.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.

Whenever you get into a new environment, it's scary. You don't know the people; you're not really comfortable with the machine that the show is.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.