I don't think you realize how hard it is to always be reaching out to you, and to continually be rebuffed.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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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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And now, you can really start to get over him. If you think about it, this is probably the best thing that could have happened.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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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

It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

—Terry Pratchett

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A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

—George Burns

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