Which Sarah Dessen Character Are You?

Do you long for the past, like Haven in That Summer? Or maybe you're a resilient type, like Halley in Someone Like You?

Find out with our test ...

If asked, your friends would say you:

are sweet and too shy.
are loyal to the end.
what friends?
need to assert yourself more, for godsakes.
can solve any problem, any time.

On the family front, however, you:

tend to fade into the woodwork: by choice, though.
wish your parents would admit you're not eight anymore.
tend to have to fend for yourself lately: they mean well, but they just don't get it.
always run a somewhat distant second to just about everyone.
are the mother to your mother, with mixed results.

Boys. What about them?

Entirely too nervous about it. Next question.
I like the kind of guy who makes me laugh and widens my world a bit: I mean, I can't date my middle school boyfriend forever. If my parents hate him, well, maybe that's a bonus, actually.
I don't trust anyone. Even a guy you think is nice usually is hiding something. Okay, maybe I'm bitter, but I have my reasons.
While everyone else pegs me as the jock girlfriend type, I'm ready for a change. Big time.
I'm a serial dater: I love those initial weeks when it's all fun and games, but get serious on me and I'm gone.

What's your weapon of choice?

I throw things. Like shoes.
I'm pretty passive, unless you're my mother or say anything about my best friend.
Sarcasm and the cold shoulder.
Nothing: I tend to turn things inward and keep them to myself.
Sip Diet Coke, extra large.

Which of the following would you be most likely to say?

"I was all bony elbows and acute angles, like a jigsaw puzzle piece that can only go in the middle, waiting for the others to fit around it to make it whole."
"Life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend."
"I'd spent years hearing whispers, taunts across gyms and locker roomsò I'd been called fat and easy, slut and whore, Hole in One. So I didn't mind being ignored. For so long, it had been all I wanted."
"I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study or sleep or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell."
"Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to be powerful enough to justify taking up any more of their time? I was doing him a favor, really. Freeing him up for a better opportunity. In fact, I was practically a saint, if you really thought about it."

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