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About Sarah Dessen
American novelist, young adult fiction
Sarah Dessen is an American novelist known for young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, appeared in 1996. She has published more than a dozen other novels and novellas, and 221 quotes on this site are attributed to her. Her work centers on stories for young readers, and in 2017 she received the Margaret Edwards Award for part of that body of work. Two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.
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- “Longing to feel his hot flesh against mine, I roughly remove his jacket and start unbuttoning his shirt. I ma…”Emily Rose Philips
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- “[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door tha…”Lev Grossman
Explore Kindness
- “Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kind…”Gretchen Rubin
- “I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.”Barbra Streisand
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Books by Sarah Dessen
That Summer
1996
Someone Like You
1998
Lock and Key
2008
This Lullaby
2002
Along for the ride
2009