Sara Gruen Quotes

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

  Sara Gruen

  Earth, Life Is, Shows

  "Water for Elephants". Taglines, www.imdb.com. April 22, 2011.

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• When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

  Sara Gruen

  Fate, Elephants, Two

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• Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

  Sara Gruen

  Cancer, Elephants, Age

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.25, Hachette UK

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

  Sara Gruen

  Mean, People, Should

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

  Sara Gruen

  Memories, Persistent, Distressing

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

  Sara Gruen

  Crazy

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

  Sara Gruen

  Cheer, Law, Alcohol

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• 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.

  Sara Gruen

  Fall, Writing, Light

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• Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

  Sara Gruen

  Hard Work, Important, Aging

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I'm afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

  Sara Gruen

  Lying, Feelings, Skins

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• I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

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  Body, Convince, Pointless

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• The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

  Sara Gruen

  Writing

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• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.

  Sara Gruen

  Love, Skins, Want

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Sara Gruen

  Kissing, Long, Want

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• It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

  Sara Gruen

  Sleepwalking

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

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  Hate, Writing, Pages

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.

  Sara Gruen

  Uncles, Mean, Mad

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• You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dream, Shows, Sucker

  "Water for Elephants". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

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  Thinking, Next, Fingers

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• I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.

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  Whole Life, Whole

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• Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.

  Sara Gruen

  Pain, Lying, Grief

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• ...if you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is.

  Sara Gruen

  People, Giving, Trying

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• Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.

  Sara Gruen

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

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