Sarah Dessen Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Inspirational, Time

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.349, Penguin

• The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

• 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

• There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, World, Quiet

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

• Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Falling In Love, Heart

• I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Hands, Space

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.262, Penguin

• You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Dry, Source

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.163, Penguin

• I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Strong, Heart

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

• When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Able, Faces

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.83, Penguin

• I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Broken, Arms

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.245, Penguin

• That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, First Love, Firsts

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.95, Penguin

• But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Thinking, Forever

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

• When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Air, World

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

• And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she was wrong. I had seen that comet. I knew it as well as I knew my own face, my own hands. My own heart.

  Sarah Dessen

  Memories, Heart, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.133, Penguin

• The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips.

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  Fall, Heart, Knowing

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.173, 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

• Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Pride, My Best Friend

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.18, Penguin

• If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Way, Faces

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.93, Penguin

• When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he moved in closer, his hands smoothing over my shoulders, and in my mind I saw myself retreating a million times when people tried to do this same thing: my sister or my mother, pulling back and into myself, tucking everything out of sight, where only I knew where to find it. This time, though, I gave in. I let Wes pull me against him, pressing my head against his chest, where I could feel his heart beating, steady and true.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Heart, Sight

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.210, Penguin

• But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Doors, Yellow

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.254, Penguin

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