I just don't know…how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

—Sarah Dessen in Lock and Key

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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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Mostly, I felt stupid for falling for his big talk, the very thing my mother had warned me about. Even from a distance he'd taken me in, and I'd gone, gullibly and willingly.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More

I wondered if the summer had changed me, if with one look the world could see a difference.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

If he wanted to see her, he'd find her. If he wanted to get back together, she should make him work for it.

—Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?

—Sarah Dessen in Saint Anything

We both know life is short. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

—Mark Vonnegut

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If you have the ability and the opportunity to help someone, but you don't do anything just because you're scared or it's inconvenient or something, then maybe you're just as bad as the people who caused the trouble in the first place.

—Bree Despain in The Lost Saint

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People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don't need help.

—Glennon Doyle Melton in Warrior

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Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won't move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can't choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we're stuck in our own self-defeat.

—Rachel Van Dyken in Toxic

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God has . . . ordered things that we may learn to bear one another's burdens; for there is no man without his faults, none without his burden. None is sufficient unto himself; none is wise in himself; therefore, we must support one another, comfort, help, teach, and advise one another.

—Thomas à Kempis

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