Sarah Dessen Quotes

I don't belong to anyone.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

People should just let me be.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

To be free is often to be lonely.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.