I didnt pay attention to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing — 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
“He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take still surprised me. From… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I thought this was a cookout. You know, dogs and burgers, Tater Tots, ambrosia salad" Dexter picked up a box of Twinkies,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember… — 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