The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy... — 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
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would… — 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
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
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
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
Who knew three dots could make such a difference? Like everything else, a love or a wish or whatever, it was all… — 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 watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.… — 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
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
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
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for… — 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
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
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
And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
You know, when you think about it, that’s kind of a weird thing. I mean it’s meant to be sympathetic, right? But… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for a while. Maybe even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
A second later, when he looked up at me, we were face to face, and again, even under these circumstances, I was… — 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
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less — 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
Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go… — 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
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
“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
