In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.
Sarah StrohmeyerLove doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.
Sarah StrohmeyerA mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.
Sarah StrohmeyerCoeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.
Sarah StrohmeyerI think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.
Sarah StrohmeyerIn fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not.
Sarah StrohmeyerThe imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
Sarah StrohmeyerMaybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.
Sarah StrohmeyerIt's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.
Sarah StrohmeyerRisk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
Sarah StrohmeyerThat's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.
Sarah StrohmeyerAs my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
Sarah StrohmeyerI focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.
Sarah StrohmeyerThis is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.
Sarah StrohmeyerSee that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.
Sarah StrohmeyerWe may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.
Sarah Strohmeyer