Top 500 Sarah Dessen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”

— Sarah Dessen

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2. “Music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.”

— Sarah Dessen

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3. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.”

— Sarah Dessen

4. “Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”

— Sarah Dessen

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5. “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

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6. “Let’s just start and see what happens.”

— Sarah Dessen

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7. “If you expect the worst, you’ll never be disappointed.”

— Sarah Dessen

8. “Life’s too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow.”

— Sarah Dessen

9. “If you have just one person believe in you, you’ll always find your way.”

— Sarah Dessen

10. “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

11. “Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.”

— Sarah Dessen

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12. “The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.”

— Sarah Dessen

13. “Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.”

— Sarah Dessen

14. “Silence is so freaking loud.”

— Sarah Dessen

15. “True friendship is a promise you keep forever.”

— Sarah Dessen

16. “Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.”

— Sarah Dessen

17. “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

— Sarah Dessen

18. “Oh darling, don’t be bitter. It’s the first instinct of the weak.”

— Sarah Dessen

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19. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”

— Sarah Dessen

20. “Hey, and for what it’s worth? Friends don’t leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.”

— Sarah Dessen

21. “It’s never long distance between friends.”

— Sarah Dessen

22. “Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.”

— Sarah Dessen

23. “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 there, regardless.”

— Sarah Dessen

24. “Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.”

— Sarah Dessen

25. “Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

— Sarah Dessen

26. “Too many locks, not enough keys.”

— Sarah Dessen

27. “It’s all in the view. That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you’d better make every second count.”

— Sarah Dessen

28. “You don’t have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.”

— Sarah Dessen

29. “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie.”

— Sarah Dessen

30. “Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.”

— Sarah Dessen

31. “Some things don’t last forever, but some things do.”

— Sarah Dessen

32. “You can’t love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It’s too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.”

— Sarah Dessen

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33. “In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”

— Sarah Dessen

34. “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

— Sarah Dessen

35. “So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.”

— Sarah Dessen

36. “Sometimes things don’t turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.”

— Sarah Dessen

37. “I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.”

— Sarah Dessen

38. “Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.”

— Sarah Dessen

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39. “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

40. “It’s hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.”

— Sarah Dessen

41. “Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...”

— Sarah Dessen

42. “Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.”

— Sarah Dessen

43. “Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.”

— Sarah Dessen

44. “Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.”

— Sarah Dessen

45. “In the end, though, maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.”

— Sarah Dessen

46. “There’s just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.”

— Sarah Dessen

47. “You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs.”

— Sarah Dessen

48. “The bottom line is, what defines you isn’t how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it’s one more. you’re all good.”

— Sarah Dessen

49. “With love like that, you can’t get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it’s there. Better late than never.”

— Sarah Dessen

50. “It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.”

— Sarah Dessen