Sarah Dessen Quotes

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Everything remains unsettled forever, depend on it

And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

You see, life only turns out good or bad for only a little bit. And then it turns out some other way.

Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.

It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

Life is like this: things come and go.

It's amazing how quickly things can change.

Nothing is definite, nothing is finished, nothing is determined.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.