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....
But talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered.
—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.