Sarah Dessen Quotes

Every wall is a door.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

There are no unlockable doors.

restrictions create frustrations!

Security is the denial of life

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Make a little space, and get out of your own way.

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Security is a kind of death.

I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

Straight ahead you can't go very far.

You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.

The same way you slow me down: … You can’t.

One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.

You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.