“This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me.” — 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
“To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. Those 3 or so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know. — 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
So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go… — 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
“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence -Eli” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everyone laughed, and just like that, the conversation shifted, jumping to another topic. It was fast and furious, the talking, the emotions,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Nope.' He sat back. 'Just been there, done that. Done that getting hauled to the police station thing because of it, too.I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 together forever,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
