Quote

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.

Sarah Dessen

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Persons
Lonely
Depending
Person
Looked
Flat
Thing
Moon
Flats
Like
Either
Sole
Start
Vast
Living
Peaceful
House
Tiny
Together
Surface

More quotes by Sarah Dessen

Image
I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible
Sarah Dessen
Image
I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
Sarah Dessen
Image
An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Sarah Dessen
Image
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
Sarah Dessen
Image
It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
Sarah Dessen
Image
call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.
Sarah Dessen
Image
The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
Sarah Dessen
Image
Nate: “And,” he said, “boys at twelve aren’t exactly slick with the ladies.” Ruby: “’Slick with the ladies’?” I said. “Are you twelve?
Sarah Dessen
Image
Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
Sarah Dessen
Image
You should have seen your face, she said, her breath hot in my ear. Sa-woooon.
Sarah Dessen
Image
But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
Sarah Dessen
Image
I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
Sarah Dessen
Image
If you were dead, Owen told her, you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.
Sarah Dessen