“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
“Finally he asks, "What if that's not enough? What if I need something else?" And she replies, "Whatever you need, I will… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You and Wes," she said, triumphant, "are just likethis ." She was holding a book, a paperback romance. The title, emblazoned in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that… — 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
“I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It's not a switch you can just flip off", Dr. Marshall had told me once. "If you didn't love him, this never… — 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
What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. — 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
“It’s you who i have thought of when i am at my weakest & you who have pulled me through” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You bought me plastic ware," he said. "Didn't you?' "No," I growled, picking at my license plate. "You did!" he hooted, laughing… — 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
