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
Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same… — 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
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the… — 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
In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways:… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on… — 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 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
So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hours later, after… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do;… — 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
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really… — 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… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a… — 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
and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal.… — 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
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I… — 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
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
As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor… — 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
