Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessenis an American writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 June 1970
CityEvanston, IL
goodbye moving farewell
I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name
lonely bored matter
I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.
distance long-distance long
It's never long distance between friends.
forever
Everyone had a forever.
want easy backwards
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.
kissing boys other-worlds
If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.
party voice perfect
That sucks, though," Wes said finally, his voice low. "You're just setting yourself up to fail, because you'll never get everything perfect." "Says who?" He just looked at me. "The world," he said, gesturing all around us, as if this party, this deck encompassed it all. "The universe. There's just no way. And why would you want everything to be perfect, anyway?" "I don't want everything to be perfect," I said. Just me, I thought. Somehow. "I just want—
realization care pages
Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199
kids perfect want
When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.
nice giving people
You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
disappointment used inevitable
Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.
growing-up long enough
Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
breakup world weird-things
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
selfish care lines
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.