“ I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell whether he was kidding or… Sarah Dessen
“ [Adam picks up the camera] I have to get a shot of this.The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person except me raised their hands at once to cover their faces. The accompanyi… Sarah Dessen
“ Once you love something, you always love it in someway. You have to. it's like, part of you for good. Sarah Dessen
“ Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you hav… Sarah Dessen
“ Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to. Sarah Dessen
“ As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things c… Sarah Dessen
“ I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn… Sarah Dessen
“ We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down… Sarah Dessen
“ He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take still surprised me. From that very first day in my room, I felt like we'd somehow skipped the formal… Sarah Dessen
“ When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. Sarah Dessen
“ It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much. Sarah Dessen
“ If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget fa… Sarah Dessen
“ Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand. Sarah Dessen
“ Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. Sarah Dessen
“ So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more. Sarah Dessen
“ I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen. Sarah Dessen
