The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.
Sarah Dessen"What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."
Sarah DessenMaybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things โ like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day โ that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.
Sarah DessenIt's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
Sarah DessenIt was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
Sarah DessenI spent a lot of time looking at that picture. Wondering what Iโd think of that girl, if I was someone else, seeing how easily she sits in her boyfriendโs lap, laughing, with his arms around her. I would have thought her life was perfect, the way I once thought Cassโs was. It was too easy, I was learning, to just assume things.
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