Sarah Dessen Quotes

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

Everything's not always perfect.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

Even success needs its consolations.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

It's tough never being right.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I am not strong on perfection.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

If I could take back all the mistakes that I made throughout my career, I would have had a perfect career. I would have missed no shots. I would have made no turnovers. I would have went right instead of going left when I was supposed to, every game.

Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.

I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.