Quotes from Sarah Dessen

I've never envied the person who had to put my books together in one script.

I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the rest of us wake up the next morning to just another day.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books.

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

Nah, " I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

My books are so tame!

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

I'm really happy to have the chance to talk about the editing process. It's something that I think doesn't get the weight it deserves, especially with the rise of self-publishing.

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

When I was a teen, I was never really into the captain of the football team or the student body president. The guys I liked were quirky and different: They listened to music I'd never heard of, never had lunch or gas money, and could always make you laugh.