Sarah Dessen Want Quotations

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.

Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.

I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.

You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.

Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.