Sarah Dessen Quotes

It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

You are.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

Things become clear when there is no escape.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

Facing facts is always empowering.

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

Cause I rely on my illusions, to keep me warm at night. I've denied in my capacity to love, and I am willing to give up this fight

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.