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Just Listen

Sarah Dessen

Still, as that year went on, I had trouble trusting that things were really getting better.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

Is that what you wanted? That I be gone for good, rather than just mad for a little while?

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anger leaving disappearance

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

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

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

others savior

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

history regret the past

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

It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.

—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen

fear judgement self-contained containment

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

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

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

About Sarah Dessen

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Sarah Dessen (born June 6, 1970) is an American novelist known for her contributions to young adult fiction. Her first book, That Summer, was published in 1996, and has since published more than a dozen other novels and novellas. In 2017, Dessen won the Margaret Edwards Award for some of her work, and two of her books were adapted into the 2003 film How to Deal.

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