The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.
The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.
I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
One summer and one boy, and suddenly things weren't the same.
Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born in Illinois, Dessen graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996. She has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work. Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.