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Along for the Ride

A New York Times bestseller Up all night. Nights have always been Auden’s time, her chance to escape everything that’s going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guid

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“Don't change for a guy, ever. If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Changing, Dating, H4D-48

“Relationships don’t always make sense. Especially from the outside.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, Love, Understanding

“Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Friends, Truth, honest

“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Never Give Up, Failure, humans

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Decisions, helpless

“Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Screwups, humanity

“Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Relationships, confusing, Perspective

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Overthinking, Waiting, Hoping, wishing

“Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Sarah Dessen Quotes, Sarah Dessen, Weakness, Strength And Courage

“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Sarah Dessen Quotes, Sarah Dessen, Questions, Answers

“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Utterly Heartbreaking, Loss, Heartbreak, Love, Breakups

“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Summer, Summer Days, Endless Summer, Possibility

“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.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Motivational, Failing, Life Truths

“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

Tagged: Success, Dreams, Hard Work