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
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road,… — 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
In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect."… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You… — 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
