Sarah Quotes
To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.
Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.
Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.
Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life.
I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave me a great work ethic.
Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.
Every time I'm close to you, there's too much I can't say, and you just walk away. And I forgot to tell you I love you.
There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.
The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.
Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
If we can send a person to the moon, we can send someone with AIDS to the moon, and then someday we can send everybody with AIDS to the moon.
Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it calls you to sell your soul for one, fleeting moment.
I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
Part of me could do it. Run off and get married. But another part... Another part of me wondered if I could really trust anyone. If all relationships were all doomed.
...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.
I've given up reading the papers. Since the world's so obviously bent on killing itself, I decided months ago to sit back and let it.
The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.
It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.
The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn't include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.
