...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found. — 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
Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong. — 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 started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now;… — 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
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know. — 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
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in… — 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
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
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked. "I want you to give her a possibility," she told him,… — 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
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
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak… — 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
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
So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need… — 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
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to… — 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 wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore. — 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
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
“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
