All anyone really wants from another person is their attention. It's so easy to give and counts for so much.

About Sarah Dessen

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, as I reached up, closing my fingers over his, I was grateful more than ever for something, finally, to hold on to.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

He's just not a keeper. He's not worth working my schedule around if we're only going to break up in a few weeks anyway.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

It was just one boy, that same boy I always started to think about more and more as the hours passed.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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

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

All anyone really wants from another person is their attention. It's so easy to give and counts for so much.

About Sarah Dessen

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