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Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything

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If he was here, I don't even know what might have happened between us. We were only together for a summer, you know? Maybe he would have turned out to be a major jerk. I'll never know. But when it gets like this, and I'm miserable, all I can think is that he might have made everything okay. That he was the only one who understood. Ever.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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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 in Just Listen

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It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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And now, you can really start to get over him. If you think about it, this is probably the best thing that could have happened.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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I don't think you realize how hard it is to always be reaching out to you, and to continually be rebuffed.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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He slid his arms up around me, and as he kissed me back, I felt something inside me open, like a new life beginning. I didn't know yet what girl she'd be, or where this life would take her. But I'd keep my eyes open, and when the time came, I would know.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

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