Sarah Dessen

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

Sarah Dessen

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Sarah Dessen

You get what you give, but also what you’re willing to take.

Sarah Dessen

If you’re not getting hurt, you’re not riding hard enough.

Sarah Dessen

A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

Sarah Dessen

All of my stories, they don’t come from my high school experience, but they’re definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

Sarah Dessen

All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.

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

And guys don’t get attached, guys don’t give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That’s why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm’s length whenever possible.

Sarah Dessen

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it’s even more difficult when it seems like it’s the only thing.

Sarah Dessen