1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That’s all matters. You knew.

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It’s so easy in the past tense.

It’s not always easy being her daughter.? I think,? she said, ’sometimes it’s hard no matter whose daughter you are.

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.

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can’t just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it’s not perfect.

Sometimes things don’t turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

Sawooon.

I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It’s much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.