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
My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as… — 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
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
But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well. — 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 realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take… — 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
And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew… — 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
So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm… — 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
So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning?… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing… — 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
He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll… — 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
