Sara Gruen Quotes

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

3453

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

3148

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

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He only had the imperfect medium of words.

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The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

1951

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

1984

Sometimes when you get older - and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently - things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true - why, then you get offended.

1849

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

3912

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

4058

Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks

4826

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

4597

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

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When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

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