I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place. — 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
Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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 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
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
He shook his head. "Some people think that they like music,but they have no idea what it's really about. They're kindding themselves.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid… — 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
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me.… — 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
You ready to play?" Dave asked, bouncing it. "I don't know," I said. "Are you going to cheat?" "It's street ball!" He… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but… — 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
When he first put his arms around me, it was tentative, like maybe he expected I'd pull away. When I didn't, he… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting… — 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
