# Quote — Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

> I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

- Author: [Sarah Dessen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen.md)
- Book: [Someone Like You](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/someone-like-you.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sarah_Dessen#Someone_Like_You_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/someone-like-you/i-watched-my-mother

## More from this book

> You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/someone-like-you/you-cant-just-turn.md)

> There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right were you stand.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/someone-like-you/there-are-some-things.md)

> When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/someone-like-you/when-i-pictured.md)