I thought it must be fate that I kept bumping into him, some strange sign that he was meant to come back into my life and fix or change something, a voice from the past arriving in the present with the answers to everything.

—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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And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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Is that what you wanted? That I be gone for good, rather than just mad for a little while?

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

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Still, as that year went on, I had trouble trusting that things were really getting better.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

A break. I knew what that meant: it was what happened right before something was officially and finally broken. Finished.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

—John J. Plomp

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I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.

—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

—James Thurber

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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while.

—Julia Quinn in With Love

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