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Quotes About Journey

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.
~ Sarah Dessen
I told you, everyone understands a quest.
~ Sarah Dessen
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.
~ Sarah Dessen
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.
~ Sarah Dessen
Why should I even bother? What's the point, really? He thought for a moment. Who says there has to be a point? he asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.
~ Sarah Dessen
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.
~ Sarah Dessen
I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.
~ Sarah Dessen
Through my tears, I could hear her, saying it was all going to be okay, and I knew she believed this. But I was sure of something, too: it's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered--so many locks, not enough keys.
~ Sarah Dessen
Let's just start and see what happens.
~ Sarah Dessen
Being self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside. It starts with the rest of the world and leads back to you.
~ Sarah Dessen
But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..
~ Sarah Dessen
But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out. So what happened? I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all
~ Sarah Dessen
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
~ Sarah Dessen
You don't want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?
~ Sarah Dessen
That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.
~ Sarah Dessen
When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
~ Sarah Dessen
D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.
~ Sarah Dessen
Told you. Everything sounds better in the car wash.
~ Sarah Dessen
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.
~ Sarah Dessen
I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
~ Sarah Dessen
In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
~ Sarah Dessen