I always wished I could move around and switch schools. It was hard to have these radical transformations. You'd think, 'I will be a totally different person tomorrow,' but it never worked.
From Sarah Dessen
I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was close with my mom and had to break with her in order to find myself and come back. Since that was my experience, that's often what happens in my books.
I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.
In high school, I was lucky enough to have a big group of girlfriends that have really inspired a lot of the stories in my books. I'm still close with my friends from that time, so it's never very hard to put myself back into that place, that voice.
I'm all about shrimpburgers, reading, and going to the beach.
On the whole, I think I spent a lot of high school just trying to stay under the radar: I don't think I was all that memorable.
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