1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud, and try again.

I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

That's not a real answer.'Says who?'Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'Clowns.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.