Popular YA (Young Adult) fiction writer of bestsellers such as This Lullaby, The Truth About Forever, Just Listen, and others. Her books always have female protagonists and often include romance. Sarah Dessen is extremely popular among teenage girls.
Eliza: Hey, I just finished This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen.
Lita: Wasn't it lovely?
When someone says something romantic as a joke, and you take it way to deeply; a symptom that occurs while/after reading a book by Sarah Dessen.
Ryan: Hahaha girl u funny, i love you!
Julie: Oh Ryan! I love you too! My heart yearns for you with a burning passion! i would walk thru fire for you!
Ryan: Ummm... i was just...
Julie: Oh. Sorry, I've been reading Sarah Dessen!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)