The best Quotes from Just Listen

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

Sarah Dessen

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

Sarah Dessen

Memories

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes... blotting out the future.

Sarah Dessen

Past

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 your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Sarah Dessen

Music Memories

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

Heart

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In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.

Sarah Dessen

Summer

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Sarah Dessen

Failures & Mistakes

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

Sarah Dessen

June July August

"It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happens. You don't think or plan. You just do it."

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Love Relationships

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Failures & Mistakes

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

Self-Confidence Respect

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.

Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Love

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Life Failures & Mistakes Beginning Scars

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Memories Eternity

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Love Trust Breakup Falling in love

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.

Sarah Dessen in This Lullaby

Love Relationships

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

Falling in love

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Ending Sentences

'You want to talk about failure?' He looked up at me, meeting my eyes. 'Try being the one who was driving. Who got to live.'

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Failures & Mistakes Guilt

'Of course I do,' he said. 'Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.'
'Which is?'
'Not even trying.' Now he did look at me, straight on.
'Life's short, you know?'

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Failures & Mistakes

And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Music Sad Quotes

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Music

"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Music

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Memories Death Grief & Condolence

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Memories Moments

The best moments in life are the ones that make us smile when we think about them.

Memories Laughing & Smile

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Balu in The Jungle Book

Silence

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Intelligence Silence

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Fred Durst

Future Past

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 5 Episode 1

Past Anchors

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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