Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
Sarah Dessen quotes about
understood
Some things you don't have to tell. Some things, between sisters, are understood.
pages firsts done
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
upset dont-change okay
If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don't change because of it. It's just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.
promise finding-myself ends
But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..
new-year fall years
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up....
get-back bike
Get back on that bike.
illinois remember hills
I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
ugly lasts moments
It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
loving-someone facts leap-of-faith
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
leaving easy hard
Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
enough difficult persons
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.
judgement supportive olivia
It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?
listening matter hard
As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.
tired pieces hanging-on
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.