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
—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye
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....
This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.
—Laurie Halse Anderson in Speak