Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
grief anchors bereavement
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
girl baby warrior
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.
inspirational motivational heart
The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
daughter school proud
I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.
waiting over-you saving
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
people weak accepting
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
world one-word whole-world
one word could change the whole world
thinking pages enjoy
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
relationship mom children
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.
forever promise true-friendship
True friendship is a promise you keep forever.
leaving easy hard
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
jobs giving-up writing
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.
people sometimes reason
Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
real fresh-start honest
All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.