The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

—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...

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More and more lately, we kept hitting each other with these little jabs. Like we were siblings or bickering friends, not a couple supposedly in love.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

I still felt that rush whenever he looked so happy to see me.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

Don't change for a guy, ever. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

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It's a little convenient, isn't it, to say that the reason you did something horrible was because someone else told you to. That doesn't make it any less wrong. No matter how many people are telling you to jump off a bridge, you always have the option to turn around and walk away.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.

—Charlie Brown in Charles Schulz's Peanuts

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?

—George Price

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I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

—Samuel Goldwyn

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