I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother's strength,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
n the dark everyone felt the same: the edges blurred. When I think of myself then, what I was like two years… — 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 was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage… — 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
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life… — 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
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
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting… — 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
