Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“People are not uniform Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl. So stop holding yourself to some ridiculous high… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You just looked..." she said, searching for the word, "taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“He handed me a bandana. "Tie that on." "Why?" I said, but I did it anyway. "Norman, you are way too into… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own eyes.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his arms around… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I jammed my hand in my jacket pocket, bracing myself fo the next hit, and fel something. Something grainy and samll, sticking to the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
“For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
