He looked up at me and grinned, and again, I felt this strange urge to smile back. And I was not someone who smiled a lot.

—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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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Never give in to a guy who really pursues you, since they'll just lose interest the moment the chase ends.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Sometimes when I saw him, all I wanted to do was tell him everything. The thought would crash over me like a wave, sudden and unexpected.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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

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Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them.

—Penelope Douglas in Rival

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

—Maya Angelou

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I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

—Malcolm de Chazal

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There's so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn't. There's a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn't need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don't romanticize life like you can't survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn't any less beautiful.

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