He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody gets hurt. It's… — 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
Maybe not," she said as we came to the car. "But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We both know the limits of this relationship. It's understood. And as long as we're both comfortablewith that, nobody get's hurt. It's… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's all about you, Colie." She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. "Believe in yourself up here and it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever… — 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
