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

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist known for her contributions to young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996, and has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of...

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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

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

Some things can't be saved.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Lately I've been thinking it would have been better to have just been by myself. That way, at least all of high school wouldn't be tinged with his memory.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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Maybe I didn't need all the time anyway. Just a couple of hours, a good breakfast, and a chance to talk with the two people who knew me best, no matter who I was.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

—Heywood Broun

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It is better to live a holy life than to talk about it. Lighthouses do not ring bells and fire cannons to call attention to their shining; they just shine.

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An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests.… So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself.

—Vaclav Havel

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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

—Pauline Phillips

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