Just Listen Sarah Dessen Quotes

#1. I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Sarah Dessen

#2. Don't think or judge, just listen.

Sarah Dessen

#3. These aren't glass slippers," Brian said, dangling the gloves in the air, "but if I have to try them on every girl in LA to find my princess, I will.

Kelly Oram

#4. Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.

Sarah Dessen

#5. Even as rowers must subsume their often fierce sense of independence and self-reliance, at the same time they must hold true to their individuality, their unique capabilities as oarsmen or oarswomen or, for that matter, as human beings.
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Daniel James Brown

#6. There's a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly

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#7. So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

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#8. The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.

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#9. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be.

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#10. Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope

#11. God created man to care for the earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.'
'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this.
'I had to. It was court-ordered.

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#13. The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated by
this word : attitude

Ency Bearis

#14. I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. 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.

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#15. Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

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#16. I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."
Sure you don't, I thought.

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#17. So what's your second suggestion?"
"Tread lightly."
"That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?"
"All right, tread very lightly.

Sarah MacLean

#18. Silence is so freaking loud

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#19. In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?

Maurice Samuel

#20. Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

#21. I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.

Sarah Dessen

#22. All I wanted - all I'd ever wanted - was just to get away. To be somewhere small where I could crowd in and feel safe, all four walls pressed around me, no one staring or pointing or yelling.

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#23. If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

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#24. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

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#25. Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

Sarah Dessen

#26. It is greed that makes us human as it could be for good or bad.

Zaman Ali

#27. One of the elements of writing that is most delightful to the engaged reader is the element of surprise. And one of the ways to surprise the reader is to set up an expectation that you then veer away from it at the last moment. A stitch in time saves the penny earned. Or something like that.

Douglas Wilson

#28. See for me, it's immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn't sure which.

Sarah Dessen

#29. But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

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#30. I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're going to relax a little bit. The way I look at it, leadership and being that guy is, don't be someone you're not. Don't be a hoorah guy jumping around and clapping your hands if you're not that guy.

Matt Flynn

#31. Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

Sarah Dessen

#32. The mounting evidence of an erosion of skills, a dulling of perceptions, and a slowing of reactions should give us all pause. As we begin to live our lives inside glass cockpits, we seem fated to discover what pilots already know: a glass cockpit can also be a glass cage.

Nicholas Carr

#33. I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Jacqueline Bisset

#34. Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

Conor McGregor