He doesn't love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn't know any better. When I trusted everyone. I'm not that person anymore.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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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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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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Disappointment is part of life. Just like change.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

—Sarah Dessen in Dreamland

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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?

—Michel de Montaigne

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Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything.

—Laura Wiess in Leftovers

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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

—George MacDonald

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