Sarah Dessen Quotes

It's a perfect day for letting go.

Now I'm free of him and I'm light as a feather. There's no weight holding me down; I'm ready to spread my wings and fly.

Every farewell combines loss and new freedom.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

I'm spreading my wings at last.

I regret nothing.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

I have moved on. I have moved forward.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

Vocally, I'm definitely pushing out more. That feels good. It's very freeing. I've always been very private and consciously private. Now it's kinda like, 'Who cares.' I'm gonna be free and gonna be me. I feel good.

There's no regrets for me.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

We need not be prisoners of our history.

I’m not looking back in anger at anything.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

You can't live in the past.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

I won't cling to the past.

It's been cool to catch up, but I think I'm done with my exes. To be honest, I went out with flying colors on the majority of them.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.