Sarah Dessen Quotes

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

Women are never what they seem to be. There is the woman you see and there is the woman who is hidden. Buy the gift for the woman who is hidden.

..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don't believe, that's all there is to see,you'll never know the real me.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair - look at what's really there.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is.

Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.