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

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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About Sarah Dessen

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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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More and more lately, I'd been realizing that my life had again shifted, almost reversing itself. I now stayed home at night, studying and sleeping, and was out in the early morning and afternoon, almost like a normal person.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

I closed my eyes, thinking back to summer and cool pool water and long days with nothing to do except go swimming and sleep late.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

But after everything I'd been through the last few months, I just couldn't wrap my mind around reaching out to others.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

More quotations tagged with “boredom”

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

—H. L. Mencken

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For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

—James Hillman

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Every hero becomes a bore at last.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

—Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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