He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You
—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You
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....
It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You