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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
Giving
Tried
Way
Leave
Things
Wasn
Tell
Didn
Look
Unresolved
Looks
Cared
Enough
Elsewhere

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