You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?"… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake… — 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
Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“What did it take to claim a person, really? One perfect night? A few weeks of phone calls, hundreds of texts, all… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“We can’t be sad about it forever, you know? We’ve got to think back to the good times and just remember them;… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The big moments with Ethan weren’t, well, big. Instead, it was these tiny increments and gestures that I clung to in order… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“A wedding is a series of special moments, strung together like beads on a chain. Sure, by themselves, they are lovely, but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesnt catch up, it overtakes blotting out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didnt pay attention to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, and every… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There are just moments when you look up from any one place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't… — 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
