“But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“When I got to my own face, I found myself staring at it, so bright with dark all around it, like it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“there were no such things as absolutes, not in life or in people. it was day by day, if not moment by… — sarah dessen Copy Share Image
But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“That's my point. That's why we can't forget. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him,… — 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
“Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“My father’s new life was progressing as planned, one neat step at a time. And I felt it, again, that same feeling… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about...I wished it would last and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Make your choices well, my mom had said. It was what she thought she hadn't done, what she hoped above everything I'd… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There were so many times during those years, though, as we moved from one house to another, that I would find myself… — 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
