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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

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Looks
Cared
Enough
Elsewhere
Tried
Giving
Leave
Way
Wasn
Things
Tell
Didn
Look
Unresolved

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