Hayden Hamby

“I closed my eyes and saw not the flat black of the dark but something else. Something brighter, closer to light, shining small but ever steady. More than enough to go on as a part of me pushed up and out, finally, to meet it there.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“It’s like everything just stopped.”
“Well, for him it probably did. You know?”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“I realized all those times I'd felt people stare
at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought only I wore, the feelings only I felt. Until now, this moment, as our eyes met. If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Nobody seemed to understand that the only person I could count on not to bring up my dad, not to feel sorry for me, or make The Face -other than my mother- was me.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever