“ 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
“ 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
“ I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. An… Sarah Dessen
“ It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with… Sarah Dessen
“ The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. Sarah Dessen
“ If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go. Sarah Dessen
“ To me, summer has always been about potential. This was especially true when I was in high school. Those 3 or so months between 1 school year and the next always meant change. People got taller or wid… Sarah Dessen
