It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly… — 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
I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m. — 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
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and get it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My point is you're different here. Hollis I've only been here for a month. A lot can happen in a month he… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between… — 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
