Sarah Dessen Quotes

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

Some age, others mature.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

Things do not change; we change.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.

Absolutely I view life from a different perspective than I did in my past. It's rewarding, to me, because it actually lets me know that I am growing up.

You could ask yourself, 'Hey, when you were 20, are you the same person?' You're not. You may have the same values, you might look a little older, you might have some things that are the same, but your heart, everything about you, starts growing, changing - good or bad. It just depends on how you approach life.

With time, everything changes. I know I'm not the same person who I used to be. I totally get that.

I hope I continue to evolve.

I have changed so much, post-'Raaz,' as a person.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

I've changed like crazy. I know I have, 'cause I work at it.