Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't… — 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
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
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
Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No… — 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
So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever… — 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
