Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

— Sarah Dessen

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow-drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

— Sarah Dessen

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.

— Sarah Dessen

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

— Sarah Dessen

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

— Sarah Dessen

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

— Sarah Dessen

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

— Sarah Dessen

And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force.” She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. “Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We’great the mall. I want to buy you think. It’s like adolescent nirvana.”- Cora

— Sarah Dessen

Anger's not bad," he said. "It's human...

— Sarah Dessen

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

— Sarah Dessen