Sara Gruen Quotes

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• I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my…
• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave…
• Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?
• I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
• Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a…
• So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my…
• The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
• ... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail,…
• I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
• I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of…
• I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.
• I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
• You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
• I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
• Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.
• You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.
• Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and…
• Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
• I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
• I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

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