That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything… — 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
I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement… — 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
I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was… — 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
