I'd done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.

—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything

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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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All I could think was that I'd lost something I never really had. And yet, the sadness in finally letting it go was as real as the tears filling and blurring my eyes.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

Self respect. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

—Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

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

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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

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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

—Sarra Manning in You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me

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The attitude that I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

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