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It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.


Sarah Dessen

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SARAH DESSEN There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other peo...
SARAH DESSEN You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a wo...
SARAH DESSEN Hate Spinnerbait!
SARAH DESSEN It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovere...
SARAH DESSEN It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
SARAH DESSEN Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground...
SARAH DESSEN There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me ...
SARAH DESSEN Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and...
SARAH DESSEN It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it tak...
SARAH DESSEN Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
SARAH DESSEN I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what...
SARAH DESSEN With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t...
SARAH DESSEN You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked.
"I want you to give her a possibility," she told...
SARAH DESSEN What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...
SARAH DESSEN Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anyt...
SARAH DESSEN Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...
SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...
SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...
SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp...
SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea...
SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo...
SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost...
SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...
SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death...
SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
SARAH DESSEN I want the white one
SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...
SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?"
What do you mean?"...
SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as...
SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
"Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie."
SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"
He thought for a moment. "Who says there h...
SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings...
SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�...
SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...
SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...
SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing...
SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in...
SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y...
SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...
SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like...
SARAH DESSEN Story of my life.
SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ...
SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin...
SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ...
SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t...
SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak...
SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
SARAH DESSEN So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that lo...
SARAH DESSEN