It had been about a month since he had dumped her, and she'd moved though her weepy stage to just kind of sad all the time, with occasional moments when I actually heard her laugh out loud, then stop, as if she'd forgotten she wasn't supposed to be happy.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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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I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

I would have thought this would make me feel better, for once getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

The last thing I need right now is another reminder of how much of my life I wasted on him.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

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He slid his arms up around me, and as he kissed me back, I felt something inside me open, like a new life beginning. I didn't know yet what girl she'd be, or where this life would take her. But I'd keep my eyes open, and when the time came, I would know.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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