You were different around him. There was something new about you that I'd never seen before. Maybe that was love.

—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...

More quotations from Sarah Dessen

All this time and he could still make my heart jump, just like that first kiss in the fall of freshman year.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

We'd had this one night where we really connected… and the next day, I just shut down on him. It was so stupid of me.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

It finally felt like summer. Heavy heat, totally humid, and everything just smelled kind of smoky and thick, as if close to boiling.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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