“because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on… — 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
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
“At times, I found myself questioning his very existence, even though I knew I had, in fact, spotted him, with my own… — 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
“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
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was… — 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
“There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“One week, one strong. One scared, one bold. I was beginning to understand though, that there were no such things as absolutes,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason - time, circumstance, distance- he wasn't able to give it to me himself. But he did give me Benji,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really about...I wished it would last and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“But it was even worse when you knew at that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet… — 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
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
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
I didnt pay attention to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesnt catch up, it overtakes blotting out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, and every… — 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
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“There are just moments when you look up from any one place and realize, suddenly, you have no idea how you got… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“A wedding is a series of special moments, strung together like beads on a chain. Sure, by themselves, they are lovely, but… — 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
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Life isn't only about the big moments whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s about the small things that stretch out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
…You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of… — 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 true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The big moments with Ethan weren’t, well, big. Instead, it was these tiny increments and gestures that I clung to in order… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“My father’s new life was progressing as planned, one neat step at a time. And I felt it, again, that same feeling… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“For me, however, it was a mix of the two, this constant push and pull. I loved it here. But I'd been in that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share
