Sarah Dessen Quotes

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

If you ask a woman who she is, she'll tell you who she serves and sometimes what she does. But that isn't the whole story.

I think, as a musician, or even as a citizen of the world, I just want to be a part of something or feel connected to something bigger than myself.

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Either sex alone is half itself.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

You are the world and the world is you.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

I write in order to belong.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

The river itself has no beginning or end. In its beginning, it is not yet the river; in the end it is no longer the river. What we call the headwaters is only a selection from among the innumerable sources which flow together to compose it. At what point in its course does the Mississippi become what the Mississippi means?

I love the interrelatedness of things.

If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.

Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.