I'd finally found a place—and maybe even some people—worth holding on to.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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 mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you. If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

It was nice to be memorable, even in a somewhat embarrassing way.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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You don't know what's out there. If you even had the slightest idea, you'd understand what you're missing.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

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

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

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To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.

—Salman Rushdie

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You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

—Shannon L. Alder

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

—Henny Youngman

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California is a fine place to live—if you happen to be an orange.

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I'd finally found a place―and maybe even some people―worth holding on to.