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Just Listen QUOTES

1 " Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

2 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

3 " Nunca habría sido capaz de decírselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo decía a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de eso. También era consciente de lo bien que me sentía al ser capaz de decirle a alguien lo que pensaba de veras. Aunque solo fuera sobre música. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

4 " Don't think or judge, just listen. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

5 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

6 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

7 " Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

8 " I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

10 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

11 " She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

13 " a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

15 " 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. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

16 " Silence is so freaking loud "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

19 " Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was. "

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen

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

― Sarah Dessen , Just Listen