“Family,”_ _ _“They’re the people in your life you don’t get to pick. The ones that are given to you, as opposed… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life is short Macy, Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you” — 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
“Life is long, just because you don't get your chance right when it comes, doesn't mean It won't come.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Then, a life was ending. Here, one was about to begin. I didn't believe in signs. But it was hard to ignore… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“One week, one strong. One scared, one bold. I was beginning to understand though, that there were no such things as absolutes,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“For as long as I’d been dating, I’d had a mental flow chart, a schedule, of how things usually went. Relationships always… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“My father’s new life was progressing as planned, one neat step at a time. And I felt it, again, that same feeling… — 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
“She shook her head. "Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life was very short, literally. But now that I’m better, it seems so long I have to squint to see even the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Yes,' he said, 'a list. That way, I figure, we'll have a written record of what we've agreed upon as our goals… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life seemed so much more manageable when you could write it down neatly on paper.” — 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
“Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow — 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
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It's both, it all depends on how you choose to live it. Forever is always changing.' [About if life is short or… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life is long. Just because you don’t get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn’t mean it won’t come.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — 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
“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