Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I'm very interested in how people change.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Half my life is an act of revision.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Books have the power to be the light we are seeking at crucial moments in our lives. Reading helps us realize we are not alone, that we can change our circumstances and even achieve the impossible.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

I think I surprise myself.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.