It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away.… — 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
“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
