Sarah Dessen Quotes

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

It is either easy or impossible.

No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.

Only nothing is impossible.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .

The stars are not the limit.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

A world of possibilities awaits you. Keep turning the page.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

Art is only the search, it is not the final form. It's unlimited, it's forever.

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

I don't like feeling hemmed in and I don't like feeling that I'm repeating myself.