Sarah Dessen Quotes

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and 'Asia Falling'; 'Free to Choose' and 'Free to Lose'; 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' and 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.' Visitors love the collection.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

The best thing in the world is to put two characters who hate each other side by side. Or put two people who love each other far away, so they have to reach for each other with their looks.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

who is the love of my life? Maybe I don't have one. Maybe it's not love at all. But if it's not love, then what is it? I wish I knew.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

The hour I have long wished for is now come.

Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me.
 Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.