It wasn't until Kiffney-Brown, when I met Jason Talbot, that I really thought I might actually have one of those boyfriend kind of stories to tell the next time I got together with my old friends. Jason was smart, good-looking, and seriously on the rebound after his girlfriend at Jackson dumped him for, in his words, 'a juvenile delinquent welder with a tattoo'.
Sarah DessenYouโre always a kid around your parentsโฆ Unless theyโre acting like children. Then you donโt get the chance.
Sarah DessenSome people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
Sarah DessenAnyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
Sarah DessenWatching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didnโt, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasnโt so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.
Sarah Dessen