24 quotes found
“Silence is so freaking loud”
“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
“Anger's not bad," he said. "It's human...”
“It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.”
“I'd made my choice, though, and I couldn't take it back.”
“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
“Like a word on a page that youve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like youve lost something, even if youre not sure...”
“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to...”
“She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familia...”
“Plus theres the fact, he went on, making it clear he didnt need me to reply anyway, that music is a total constant. Thats why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a so...”
“Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.”
“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 pret...”
“So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I mea...”
“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they dont change because of it. Its just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”
“Nunca habra sido capaz de decrselo, pero Owen me inspiraba. Las mentiras piadosas que yo deca a diario, las cosas que me guardaba, cada vez que no era sincera del todo... ahora me daba cuenta de es...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You did listen." He sat back, nodding his head. "Okay, then. Now tell me what you really thought.""I told you. It was interesting.""Interesting," he said, "is not a word.""Since when?""It's a place...”
“But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.”
“Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone...”
