Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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About Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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You know, sometimes things do go the way they're supposed to. It's not unheard of.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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It wasn't my job to save anyone, anyway. Especially since I hadn't even been able to save myself.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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But talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time?

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

—Pliny the Elder

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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

—Oprah Winfrey

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When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

—Carlos Castaneda

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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

—Hazel Henderson

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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