“Keeping the Moon” by Sarah Dessen

Self respect. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

self-esteem

About Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist known for her contributions to young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996, and has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work, and two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.

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