Quotes by Sara Gruen

About Sara Gruen:

Sara Gruen is an author with dual Canadian and American citizenship. Her books deal greatly with animals and she is a supporter of numerous charitable organizations that support animals and wildlife.
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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.

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There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute an...

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Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

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Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. 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.

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

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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...

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After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

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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.

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When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

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Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks

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

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Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

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Sometimes when you get older — and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently — things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of y...

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The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

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I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

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And don’t miss Frank Otto, the world’s most tattooed man! Held hostage in the darkest jungles of Borneo and tried for a crime he didn’t commit, and his punishment? Well, folks, his punishment is written all over his body in permanent ink!

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La edad es una ladrona implacable. Justo cuando empiezas a tomar el pulso a la vida te arranca la fuerza de las piernas y te encorva la espalda.Produce dolores y enturbia la cabeza y silenciosamente infesta a tu mujer de cáncer.

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It seems there's nothing so good or pure it cant be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.

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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.

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With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSara Gruen
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • Born1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist