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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Think
Gone
Thinking
Idea
Life
Death
Reconciled
Someone
Hits
Used
Shocking
Ideas
Points
Thing
Accepted
Never
Inspire

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