Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
age improvement ifs
As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.
grateful dark light
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
forever speechless rebuttal
As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.
two chloe world
One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.
should-have should
I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.
powerful opportunity feelings
Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was a practically a saint, if you really thought about it. Exactly.
ideas dry-cleaning eating
He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.
looks knows
You just had to know where to look.
sometimes knows
Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
nice ifs
It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
going-away miles avoiding
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
differences broken silence
The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.
way meant-to-be
The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
thinking turkeys broken
The thing about Wes," Delia said to me, unwrapping another package of turkey, "is that he thinks he can fix anything. And if he can't fix it, he can at least do something with the pieces of what's broken.