It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.


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SARAH DESSEN
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN
It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN
I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN
Don't think or judge, just listen.
SARAH DESSEN
There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ...
SARAH NOFFKE
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...
SARAH DESSEN
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I...
SARAH DESSEN
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...
SARAH DESSEN
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...
SARAH DESSEN
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and eve...
SARAH DESSEN
She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.
SARAH MAYBERRY
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
SARAH DESSEN
You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live you...
SARAH GERDES
For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the...
ROBERT SARAH
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist...
SARAH DESSEN
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
SARAH DESSEN
If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
SARAH DESSEN
It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...
SARAH DESSEN
I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.
SARAH OCKLER
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a...
SARAH DESSEN
He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't ...
SARAH DESSEN
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who c...
SARAH DESSEN
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ...
SARAH DESSEN
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv...
SARAH DESSEN
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple...
SARAH DESSEN
I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I...
SARAH MACLEAN
I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN
All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ...
SARAH BERNHARDT
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t...
SARAH CALDWELL
I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the...
SARAH BERNHARDT
Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS
For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w...
SARAH BERNHARDT
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop...
SARAH BERNHARDT
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig...
SARAH BERNHARDT
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per...
SARAH BERNHARDT
You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin...
SARAH BERNHARDT
America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ...
SARAH BERNHARDT
As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
SARAH CHURCHILL
I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
SARAH BERNHARDT
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ...
SARAH CALDWELL
There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.
SARAH MILES