Sarah Dessen Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Struggle, Fighting, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.188, Penguin

• "I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Regret, Smart

  "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

• It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.

  Sarah Dessen

  Struggle, Fighting, Earning

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.211, Penguin

• I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fighting, Thinking, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (1998). “Someone Like You”, Viking Childrens Books

• I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

  Sarah Dessen

  Running, Sleep, Fighting

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.129, Penguin

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