Sarah Dessen Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Heart, Fate

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.180, Penguin

• The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, People, Choices

• Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Choices, Looks

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.174, Penguin

• You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Track, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.166, Penguin

• Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

  Sarah Dessen

  Feet, Choices, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

• As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Kissing, Choices

• But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

  Sarah Dessen

  Choices, Suggestions, World

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.45, Penguin

• The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mistake, Forever, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.184, Penguin

• And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’re at the mall. I want to buy you things. It’s like adolescent nirvana.” - Cora

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

• It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

  Sarah Dessen

  Choices, Blame, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.124, Penguin

• I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did

  Sarah Dessen

  Years, Car, Choices

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.4, Penguin

• And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Drinking, Coffee

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

• It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Choices, Forever

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “The Truth About Forever”, p.291, Penguin UK

• I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, School, Emotional

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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