Sarah Dessen Quotes

Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Changing, everything is changing.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Names come and names go.

Change and everything will change for you.

Everything changes, even stone.

Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Change alone is unchanging.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.