Sarah Dessen Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Remember You, Remembers You

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.208, Penguin

• No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Together, World

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

• Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

  Sarah Dessen

  Inspirational, Running, Past

  "Just Listen". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2006.

• Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Past, Easy

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

• The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Way, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.338, Penguin

• There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

  Sarah Dessen

  Tired, Past, Burden

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.131, Penguin

• But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Chance, This Life

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

• I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, World, Headings

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.343, Penguin

• We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

  Sarah Dessen

  Silly, Past, Pieces

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.230, Penguin

• You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But it’s kind of not. Like you’re telling the person there’s nothing unique about what they’re saying I considered this as a couple of kids on Rollerblades whizzed past, hockey sticks over their shoulders. “Yeah,” I said, finally, “but you could also look at it the other way. Like no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

  Sarah Dessen

  Couple, Mean, Kids

• This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

  Sarah Dessen

  Past, Should Have, Secret

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.19, Penguin

• Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

  Sarah Dessen

  Basketball, Dad, Past

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