Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well. — 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
I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You just looked..." she said, searching for the word, "taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project,… — 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
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
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — 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
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
There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade 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
“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
