Sarah Dessen World Quotations

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already. This was a screwed-up place he'd just come into. But he didn't have to know that. Not yet, anyway. There in that room, where it was hot and cramped, the world probably still seemed small enough to manage.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy...

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

one word could change the whole world