It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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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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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

—Sarah Dessen in Dreamland

It was becoming clear to me that I shouldn’t become too attached to anything. Turn your back and you lose it. Just like that.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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2 A.M. You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they’re asleep or its cold or you need to be bailed out of jail… they’ll come for you. It’s like the highest level of friendship.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It’s, like, part of you for good.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

—William Goldman

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I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.

—Chris Rapier

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From the rise, he looks out over his place. This is it. This is all there is in the world—it contains everything there is to know or possess, yet everywhere people are knocking their brains out trying to find something different, something better. His kids all scattered, looking for it. Everyone always wants a way out of something like this, but what he has here is the main thing there is—just the way things grow and die, the way the sun comes up and goes down every day. These are the facts of life. They are so simple, they are almost impossible to grasp.

—Bobbie Ann Mason

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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die.… You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.

—William Boyd

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Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

—Sue Monk Kidd

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