My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do;… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you… — 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
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you… — 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