Sarah Dessen Quotes

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!

I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

In dreams begins responsibility.

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.