Quotes from Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

It took a lot of work to be perfect.

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

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...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

I'm just writing what I know. I've never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.