Sarah Dessen Quotes

Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

When my friends and family call me Josie, it feels like I'm being seen. It's something everyone wants, to feel understood.

There are many doors to the heart.

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

Humans are fascinated with communication. I was always drawn to words and stories, staying in touch with your feelings and being open to what's around you.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.