I spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what I’d think of that girl, if I was someone else,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so… — 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
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — 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
The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are. — 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
Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast,… — 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
“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
