I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
Sarah DessenI wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
Sarah DessenIt sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
Sarah DessenYou know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.
Sarah DessenShe smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby
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