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The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

Sarah Dessen
Beach, Real, Needs
Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.230, Penguin

Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house in one of our splintery Adirondack chairs for hours at a time, staring at the ocean. She never had a book or the paper or anything else to distract her. Just the horizon, but it kept her attention, her gaze unwavering. Maybe it was the absence of thought that she loved about being out there, the world narrowing to just the pounding of the waves as the water moved in and out.

Sarah Dessen
Beach, Ocean, Book
Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.132, Penguin

I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.

Sarah Dessen
Girl, Summer, Beach
Interview with Stephanie Mooney, www.weheartya.com. June 13, 2013.

I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

Sarah Dessen
Beach, Writing, Motherhood
"Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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