This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and… — 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
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
Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns."… — 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
Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if… — 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
Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me,… — 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
