Sarah Dessen Quotes

If not for you, winter wouldn't hold no spring, couldn't hear a robin sing. I just wouldn't have a clue, if not for you.

You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.” “No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I do need you. You have no idea how much I need you.

When I feel the joy of receiving a gift my heart nudges me to join creation's ballet, the airy dance of giving and receiving, and getting and giving again.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.

The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.

It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

I trust you because I need you.

You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

Love is needing to be loved.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

Now and then it's clear to me, that need is love, and love is need.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.