You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
Sarah DessenNo matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
Sarah DessenThe choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
Sarah DessenI always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
Sarah DessenAfter all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.
Sarah Dessen