Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
feel-better left-behind feels
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
depressing morning sunset
The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.
summer
It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
beautiful believe makeup
Looking at her, I thought again how beautiful she was - even in jeans and a T-shirt, no makeup, she was breathtaking. So much so that it was hard to believe she could ever have looked at herself and seen anything else.
perfect lasts moments
I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.
tired pieces hanging-on
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
believe way persons
If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
perfect moments believer
The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
boys firsts hardest
The first boy was always the hardest.
heart pride my-best-friend
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once....
scar
We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.
hurt boys fifteen
He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.
love-is men years
Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.
hands islands hug
Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.