“Someone Like You” by Sarah Dessen

I mean, the time that we were together wasn't all that great, but I loved him so much. It was just circumstances that kept us apart. But he was, like, everything to me for those two months. Everything.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

I still felt that rush whenever he looked so happy to see me.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

No matter how well I thought I was getting to know him, there was always some part of himself he kept hidden: people and places, activities in which I wasn't included.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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

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

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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