1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.