The bottom line I always ask myself is: if I look at everything I've had with this person, good and bad, am I better or worse off without them?

—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...

More quotations from Sarah Dessen

Because you were still just hanging on, torturing yourself, thinking he was coming back. And now you have to let go.

—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

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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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

History

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