A song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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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The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

history regret the past

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

I was used to being invisible. People rarely saw me, and if they did, they never looked close. I wasn't shiny and charming like my brother, stunning and graceful like my mother, or smart and dynamic like my friends. That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything

fear invisibility

But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

History

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