1,310 Quotes by Sarah Dessen

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    So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

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    I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.

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    I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

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    All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

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    This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

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