"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on. "
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait boy, or the guy after that, or the guy after that. Right?"
"Yeah, I said, shrugging. "You're right."
He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?

Dexter: You're here, aren't you?"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?
Dexter: You're here, aren't you?"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

""When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist""
— Chuck Palahniuk

"And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Because you can never go from going out to being friends, just like that. It's a lie. It's just something that people say they'll do to take the permanence out of a breakup. And someone always takes it to mean more than it does, and then is hurt even more when, inevitably, said ‘friendly' relationship is still a major step down from the previous relationship, and it's like breaking up all over again. But messier."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"And his fingers flowed swiftly across the ivory, the room was filled with a composition so complex, so luxurious, that it was impossible to believe only one set of hands played."
— Stephanie Meyer

"But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)"
— Sarah Dessen

"A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place."
— Kevin Brockmeier