Sarah Dessen Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

• You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Willing

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.155, Penguin

• And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Order, Back Love

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.179, Penguin

• What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. Cora was right - we had many families over time. Our family of origion, the family we created, as well as the gorups you moved thorugh while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Blood, People, Giving

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

• You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.

  Sarah Dessen

  Nice, People, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.259, Penguin

• But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

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

• Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Giving, Tomatoes

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.87, Penguin

• You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, World, Tricks

• He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes depending on who else was around, how much either of us had to drink, and other varying factors. This was exactly what I wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Commitment, Hands, Two

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2008.

• This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Commitment, Giving, Just Friends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.52, Penguin

• If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Special, Needs

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

• You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Smart, Dark

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

• The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fate, Giving, Facts

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

• Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

  Sarah Dessen

  I Like You, Giving Up, Love You

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.149, Penguin

• You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.

  Sarah Dessen

  Night, Hands, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.155, Penguin

• The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Just Friends, Lock And Key

  "Lock and Key". Book by Sarah Dessen, April 22, 2008.

• Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Breathing, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.268, Penguin

• I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Together, Emotion

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.36, Penguin

• I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength, Marion's determination, and Michael's sly humor. I wasn't sure what I could give, not just yet. But I would know when I told her about the comet, years from now, I would know. And I would lean close to her ear, saying the words no one else could hear, explaining it all. The language of solace and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Mother, Determination

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

• You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him, looking at my necklace again. "And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Keys, Doors, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.163, Penguin

• 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.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Looks, Want

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.128, Penguin

• Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

• Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sweet, Kings, Princess

• For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

  Sarah Dessen

  Two, Giving, Rubber

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.212, Penguin

• Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Firsts, Connections

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Lock and Key”, p.214, Penguin UK

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