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Quotes About Significance

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His arms closed around them. While the storm raged outside,he held them protectively. Anna buried her face in one side of his neck,David in the other. His hands cupped the backs of their heads,pressing them closer.Things were hurled against the cellar door with such impetus that David's small fist gripped a handful of his shirt. And he knew that this was what mattered. They mattered. He mattered to them. All the rest of it all the rest of it evaporated into insignificance..
~ Sandra Brown
She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.
~ Sandra Newman
Los nombres sirven para fingir que el tiempo no pasa y, al final, son lo único que queda de nosotros.
~ Santiago Roncagliolo
Pax? That's his name? It means 'peace,' you know." Peter knew that—lots of people had told him. "But
~ Sara Pennypacker
The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.
~ Sara Zarr
It happened right then; he looked at me and it was the thing I'd been waiting for but didn't know it. I don't mean anything corny like I fell in love or even into a crush or anything like that. It was more a feeling like when I'd get picked first for volleyball or find one of those stupid school candygrams in my locker. It was knowing someone else thought about me for more than one second, maybe even about me when I wasn't there.
~ Sara Zarr
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
~ Sarah Dessen
He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.
~ Sarah Dessen
As I shut the door and started to walk away, I heard him say, Hey. Sydney. Yeah? You had on a shirt with mushrooms on it, and your hair was pulled back. Silver earrings. Pepperoni slice. No lollipop. I just looked at him, confused. Layla was walking toward us now. The first time you came into Seaside, he said. You weren't invisible, not to me. Just so you know.
~ Sarah Dessen
It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
~ Sarah Dessen
None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.
~ Sarah Dessen
The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
~ Sarah Dessen
It won't change anything, I replied. And if I was any other girl, I would have gotten over it by now anyway. ... What? he replied. You're special, Emaline. You're not just any other girl.
~ Sarah Dessen
Life is short Macy, Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by the time put in, but by the weight of those moments.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments.
~ Sarah Dessen
You were happy at the time, though," I said. "That has to count for something.
~ Sarah Dessen
You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can't help but stagger beneath.
~ Sarah Dessen
Nothing, nobody matters. And yet the world is full of love
~ Sarah Manguso
To me, every plaque, no matter what words are inscribed on it, says the same magic informative thing: Something happened! The gum cost a dollar, but the story was free.
~ Sarah Vowell
Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.
~ Sarah Vowell
You hold substance in my psyche
~ Sarahbeth Purcell