The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen. — 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
Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy... — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you… — 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
I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect."… — 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
Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while… — 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
“But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me. — 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
