Sarah Dessen, Just Listen Quotes

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Silence is so freaking loud

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Anger's not bad, " he said. "It's human...

I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.