You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
From this distance, in the dimness, the model looked surreal, made up of parts filled with buildings, bordered by long stretches of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed bright and different after so long in the darkness. Even though most of the businesses were closed, there was one… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across… — 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
This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there,… — 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
