Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement?… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what a hard job it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do-… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Wes wants to be with Macy. And Macy, whether she'll admit it or not, wants to be with Wes. And yet they're… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I… — 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
