Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time?

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

About Sarah Dessen

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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...

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Some things can't be saved.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Lately I've been thinking it would have been better to have just been by myself. That way, at least all of high school wouldn't be tinged with his memory.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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Maybe I didn't need all the time anyway. Just a couple of hours, a good breakfast, and a chance to talk with the two people who knew me best, no matter who I was.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

But down deeper, something I'd seen as solid—not perfect, but solid—was suddenly crumbling. I felt like I was falling to pieces right along with it.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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