You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project,… — 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
When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people. — 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
I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be… — 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
