Sarah Dessen Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

God, how that stings! I've spent a lifetime loving science fiction and now I find that you must expect nothing of something that's just science fiction.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.