'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Family "Even though you're stuck with them, at the same time they're also stuck with you.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It was rare for things to be perfect and organized anyway, even with your best efforts. Embrace the messy and when things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“there were no such things as absolutes, not in life or in people. it was day by day, if not moment by… — sarah dessen Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason - time, circumstance, distance- he wasn't able to give it to me himself. But he did give me Benji,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Then," Kristy continued,nodding at her,"life was very short,literally.But now that I'm better,it seems so long I have to squint to see even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Somewhere along the way, I started to believe it myself. I think that being brave and self confident doesn’t necessarily start inside,… — 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
