Sarah Dessen Quotes

Breakups are still uncomfortable, period, and especially when you really are in love with somebody. They are not the easiest things to deal with, and once you break up, you're trying to get used to not being with that person.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Breaking up is hard to do. It's torture.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

Left love behind many years ago. Now it rests under a cross in the cemetery in Tombstone.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

Because I've been on the receiving end of infidelity, I know how much it hurts.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

It was the saddest day of my life.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.