It seemed safer to hold it in, where the only one who could judge was me.
—Annabel Greene, Just Listen
This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going.
—Annabel Greene, Just Listen
Silence is so freaking loud.
—Annabel Greene, Just Listen
Music is a total constant. 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.
—Owen Armstrong, Just Listen
Just Listen-Sarah Dessen
SYNOPSIS (no spoilers):
Annabel Greene seems like she has it all. But lately, she’s stopped hanging out with the popular kids, including her best friend, Sophie, and doesn’t ever seem to enthusiastic about anything. Then she meets Owen Wilson, a music enthusiast with anger management issues.
This was my first Sarah Dessen book. She never really disappoints me. This was a prime example. Great book.
We all used to try so hard to fit in. We wanted to look exactly alike, do all the same things, practically be the same person, but when we weren’t looking, that all changed.
—Samantha, Now and Then
As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t want to, but too much has happened and we can’t.
—Samantha, Now and Then
It’s normal for things to be shitty.
—Teeny, Now and Then
Vietnam Veteran: “I’m going to tell you something I wish someone would have told me when I was your age.”
Chrissy: “Oh yeah? What’s that?”
Veteran: “Your parents aren’t always right.”
Samantha: “No shit.
—Now And Then
