Sarah Dessen

“I want the white one”

— Sarah Dessen

Silence is so freaking loud

— Sarah Dessen

“Live day by day.”

— Sarah Dessen

No, no, no to Tallyho.

— Sarah Dessen

“Please God, I'm begging you”

— Sarah Dessen

Says the girl with no thyme.

— Sarah Dessen

What happened to goodbye?

— Sarah Dessen

“everyone is good at heart.”

— Sarah Dessen

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

— Sarah Dessen

It's never long distance between friends.

— Sarah Dessen

It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

— Sarah Dessen

“Disco...is great for healing.”

— Sarah Dessen

Life is an awful, ugly place not to have a best friend

— Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes forgetting was just as bad as remembering.”

— Sarah Dessen

Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad, sad story

— Sarah Dessen

Too many locks, not enough keys.

— Sarah Dessen

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.

— Sarah Dessen

“Dogs and children loved my boyfriend. It was a simple fact.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Cuando no puedes salvarte a ti mismo o a tu corazón, ayuda ser capaz de salvar las apariencias.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Life seemed so much more manageable when you could write it down neatly on paper.”

— Sarah Dessen

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

— Sarah Dessen

“Just remember: the heart! Start there, and you can't go wrong.”

— Sarah Dessen

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop…

— Sarah Dessen

That was the nice thing about the Spot: you could hear everything, but no one could see you.

— Sarah Dessen

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out…

— Sarah Dessen

I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a…

— Sarah Dessen

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will.…

— Sarah Dessen

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top.…

— Sarah Dessen

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give…

— Sarah Dessen

In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated,…

— Sarah Dessen

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life…

— Sarah Dessen

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it.…

— Sarah Dessen

“There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button…

— Sarah Dessen

It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The…

— Sarah Dessen

“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all…

— Sarah Dessen

“It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason,' she said. 'It's just that... I just think that some things are…

— Sarah Dessen

“For whatever reason - time, circumstance, distance- he wasn't able to give it to me himself. But he did give me Benji,…

— Sarah Dessen

It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind…

— Sarah Dessen

Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation…

— Sarah Dessen

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they…

— Sarah Dessen