+ one word could change the whole world Author, August 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Change, Impact, Language, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. Author, June 26, 2023January 2, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Friendship, Importance, Loneliness, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you’re pandering to them. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Authenticity, Understanding, Youth, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ So maybe it wasn’t the fairy tale. But those stories weren’t real anyway. Mine were. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Fantasy, Identity, Reality, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Alienation, Despair, Emptiness, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Escape, Focus, Literature, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Gratitude, Promptness, Thoughtfulness, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
+ Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in. Author, January 10, 2024January 6, 2025, Sarah Dessen, Belief, Hope, Isolation, 0 Sarah Dessen Author
Those who still think that listening isn’t an art should see if they can do it half as well. Michael Ende Author · Germany
I thought we talked things out!’ ‘Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say. Jean Kerr Playwright · USA
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. William Hazlitt Essayist · England
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening. Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
