Sarah Dessen Quotes

It all depends what you mean by.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

you can make mean anything.

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

Reality' is a word with many meanings.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.