Sarah Dessen

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

- Sarah Dessen

"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed."

- Sarah Dessen

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater."

- Sarah Dessen

"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”"

- Sarah Dessen

"Home wasn't a set house or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together."

- Sarah Dessen

""There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."—Sarah Dessen"

- Sarah Dessen

"If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."

- Sarah Dessen

"I never want to let you go because wherever you go, I go."

- Sarah Dessen

"“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”"

- Sarah Dessen

"Disappointment is just the initial shock of the universe reminding you that life doesn’t always go according to plan."

- Sarah Dessen

"Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human."

- Sarah Dessen

"If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go."

- Sarah Dessen

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."

- Sarah Dessen

"Life is too short. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn’t appreciate and value you."

- Sarah Dessen

"Having a sibling means having a built-in best friend for life."

- Sarah Dessen

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."

- Sarah Dessen

"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

- Sarah Dessen

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."

- Sarah Dessen

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect. You should expect it."

- Sarah Dessen

"Look, the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you’re left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst. If you expect the worst, you’re never disappointed. Yeah, but who lives like that?"

- Sarah Dessen

"Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common."

- Sarah Dessen

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them—that’s what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong"

- Sarah Dessen

"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be."

- Sarah Dessen

"June fills the world with the sweet scent of possibilities, setting the stage for optimism and potential."

- Sarah Dessen

"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."

- Sarah Dessen

"Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else."

- Sarah Dessen

"Family isn't something that's supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They're born, they die. It's always evolving, turning into something else."

- Sarah Dessen

"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."

- Sarah Dessen

"In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible."

- Sarah Dessen

"It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder -if not impossible- to lose."

- Sarah Dessen

"Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts."

- Sarah Dessen