Sarah Dessen Quotes

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

I really believe that the aliens are us from the future. It seems to me a very plausible reason that explains a lot of phenomena as opposed to green men with one eye from outer space.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

I don't like doing things that are easy!

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

You have to fight for the things you want.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Making things easy is hard.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

I'm a cynical idealist.