It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“why should i always have to do the looking?why can't other people do the look out for me?” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He shook his head. "Some people think that they like music,but they have no idea what it's really about. They're kindding themselves.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the… — 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
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all… — 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
