You don't have to say it out loud. I already know why you like me.' 'You do, huh?' 'Yep.' He wrapped his… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro? — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?"… — 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
And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life… — 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
During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
very quietly, I heard a voice in my ear.It said, in a weird, cheesy, right-out-of-one-of-my-mother’s-novels way, “Ah. Wemeet again.” I turned my… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us. "But there's… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have boobs!" Chloe said again, a bit too loudly— she'd already had a couple of mini bottles at the Spot. "My… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud? — 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
