Just Listen - Sarah Dessen

Quotes

"I don't . . ." I said, then trailed off, not sure exactly how to put this. "I just don't like to hurt people. Or upset them. So sometimes, you know, I won't say exactly what I think, to spare them that."

“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 placeholder. Something you use when you don’t want to say something else.”

"It's just . . . I don't always say what I feel.”
"Why not?”
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.”