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I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Firsts
Quiet
First
Seem
Time
Instead
Like
Already
Full
Sliding
Felt
Sat
Around
Vast
Seems
Empty

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