Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
grieving enjoy old-relationship
Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.
this-lullaby what-you-love
Love can make up for a lot.
ties sight somewhere-else
I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
ugly-things sometimes time-love
Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.
lifestyle finest terrible
Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.
thinking alive firsts
Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.
age happens things-happen
Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.
football team lunch
When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.
running wings said
'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
scare want needs
It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do -need to do- more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
hurt eyebrows scar
I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
regret real night
Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns.
know-me knows
And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
world lost
In midair, dangling lost above the world.