I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on… — 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
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
“That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn’t… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of… — 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
There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red.… — 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
