Still, as that year went on, I had trouble trusting that things were really getting better. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Is that what you wanted? That I be gone for good, rather than just mad for a little while? —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Tags: anger leaving disappearance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd spent a summer with those same eyes—scared, lost, confused—staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It wasn't my job to save anyone, anyway. Especially since I hadn't even been able to save myself. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Tags: others savior Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Tags: fear judgement self-contained containment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes when I saw him, all I wanted to do was tell him everything. The thought would crash over me like a wave, sudden and unexpected. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And now, as I reached up, closing my fingers over his, I was grateful more than ever for something, finally, to hold on to. —Sarah Dessen in Just Listen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email