Quotes from Sarah Dessen

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.

It 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.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can't fully understand.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.

Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.