"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)

"And I can see Russia from my house!"
— Tina Fay as Sarah Palin on SNL

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

"I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."
Sure you don't, I thought."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"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)

""Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"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)

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

"I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq."
— Sarah Palin

"There comes a time in every life where the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise, you'll never understand what it's saying."
— Sarah Dessen

"...Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."
— Sarah Dessen

"I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tries, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

""Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad history.""
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"This was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what eveything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this; it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."
— Sarah Dessen The Truth about Forever

"As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive."
— Sarah Dessen The Truth about Forever

"Captain's Log...

...Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of...

...Eating pocket lint.

It looks edible."
— Ken Akamatsu (Love Hina)

"Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering"
— Sarah Rees Brennan

"Sarah: Ow! It bit me!
Hoggle: What'd you expect fairies to do?
Sarah: I thought they did nice things, like... like granting wishes.
Hoggle: Shows what *you* know, don't it?"
— The Labyrinth

"Du bist kein Hauptgewinn. Du bist ein Mängelexemplar. Ein zauberhaftes und liebenswertes Mängelexemplar, und wenn da draußen jemand ist, der das sehen kann, dann ist er ein Hauptgewinn, also was stiehlst du meine Zeit mit doofer Selbstgeißelung? Schnapp dir den Typen und hör auf zu jammern!


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— Sarah Kuttner

"Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. "
— Sarah Dessen (Her Blog)

"My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how many characters, your brain holds the volume of it beyond the ability of your consciousness.

Of course.

"
— Sarah Manguso, "The Two Kinds of Decay"

"'It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride"
— Sarah Dessen

"Sometimes I dance, alone, to music no-one can hear but me. When I dance I feel the beat of the earth’s own heart rise through my feet and legs, through my loins and belly and into my chest, until my own heart beats in time with the earth’s. Then I wonder if you feel it too, beneath that portion of the earth’s crust where you stand, or walk, or lie, or dance too. Because always, when I’m dancing, I’m dancing with you. "
— Sarah Bower (Book of Love)