Sarah Dessen Quotes

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

Facts do not give advice.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

The best thing you can give someone is the freedom to make their own mind up - and then, if it's not working out 5 years later, you can give your opinion.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.