Sarah Dessen Quotes

I grew up with brothers in real life.

I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

So why aren’t you living with your sister?” “She wanted to meet new people,” Cath said. “You make it sound like she broke up with you.

Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are.

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

It's very important for me to be distinguished in my own home.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.

My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white gauze. “Okay, now take off your shirt.” (Isabelle) “I knew there was something in this for you.” (Jace) ~pg. 329~

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

As small as a world as large as alone.

es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.

My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.