“It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, "Can you grab me the spoon?" as opposed to "a spoon," which… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“We can’t be sad about it forever, you know? We’ve got to think back to the good times and just remember them;… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There were moments - when Jeopardy came on, in the car during radio trivia challenges, or for practically any question I couldn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You can't measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Once this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline said. 'Our past. I'm tired of acting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“You can't measure love by the time put in, but by the weight of those moments.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“What defines you isn’t how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Once, this had been the life I’d wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn’t believe that there had been a time when… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me,… — 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
“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
