Truth Quote by Sarah Dessen — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose.”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

“Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”

“After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.”

“Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

“For your information, Dolores, Rudi gave me full leave to do what I think is best for our children.”

“You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.”

“Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”