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title: "1 Years Mental Quotes By Sarah Bird"
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> [“I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get from my classroom to the office. He managed it for sixteen years. He must have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-guess-that-s-what-my-dad-did-stopped-agreeing-with-reality-i-could/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

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## More by Sarah Bird

> [“Because, in the end, it takes a heck of a lot more than queso, Dr Pepper, and hair spray to make a real Texas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/because-in-the-end-it-takes-a-heck-of-a-lot-more-than-queso-dr-pepper/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-would-like-whispering-with-someone-who-is-like-me-but-no-one-is-i/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-guess-that-after-three-straight-years-of-my-not-being-anything-not/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-guess-that-s-what-my-dad-did-stopped-agreeing-with-reality-i-could/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“Me and the Texas Woman, it was not love at first sight. In fact, my match with her was a bit of an arranged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/me-and-the-texas-woman-it-was-not-love-at-first-sight-in-fact-my/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I find it hard to hate a man who brings you exactly what you didn't even know you craved.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-find-it-hard-to-hate-a-man-who-brings-you-exactly-what-you-didn-t/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I can't recall consciously deciding to trick time, but that is what has happened. Somehow Martin and I, instead of being leashed for all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-can-t-recall-consciously-deciding-to-trick-time-but-that-is-what/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I guess I have to thank Shupe and all that marching for something, because my butt is as springy as a bag of Gummi…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-guess-i-have-to-thank-shupe-and-all-that-marching-for-something/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“In a lot of ways, Mom is kind of badass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/in-a-lot-of-ways-mom-is-kind-of-badass/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/the-instant-she-made-a-point-of-telling-me-i-was-just-as-good-as-them/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I read once that it takes fourteen miles for an oil tanker to change course. The same change for mothers and daughters must take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-read-once-that-it-takes-fourteen-miles-for-an-oil-tanker-to-change/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/my-library-card-every-hurdle-i-ve-faced-i-have-researched-my-way-over/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-want-to-go-to-the-mother-take-her-hand-and-tell-her-that-although/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/i-shrug-and-smile-amiably-the-way-you-do-when-you-re-in-a-foreign/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

> [“So much is exploding inside of me that I feel like a bag of Orville Redenbacher's in the microwave. Too much has happened all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-bird/so-much-is-exploding-inside-of-me-that-i-feel-like-a-bag-of-orville/)

[Sarah Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-bird/)

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