Top 60 Sara Gran Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It doesn’t matter what people want to hear. It doesn’t matter if people like you. It doesn’t matter if the whole world thinks you’re crazy. It doesn’t matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.”

— Sara Gran

2. “Sometimes the past comes up on us like a ghost. Sometimes life is like a haunted house. But there’s no way to leave. You just have to make your peace with the ghosts.”

— Sara Gran

3. “There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn’t have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren’t brave enough to see. Only tones you refused to admit you could hear.”

— Sara Gran

4. “Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies – at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.”

— Sara Gran

5. “There are no coincidences, only mysteries that haven’t been solved, clues that haven’t been placed. Most are blind to the language of the bird overhead, the leaf in our path, the phonographic record stuck in a groove, the unknown caller on the phone. They don’t see the omens. They don’t know the signs.”

— Sara Gran

6. “Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.”

— Sara Gran

7. “If you hate yourself enough, you’ll start to hate anyone who reminds you of you. And if you stick with it, you’ll come to hate anyone who doesn’t see how just awful you are.”

— Sara Gran

8. “What we think is impossible happens all the time.”

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9. “I never met an addict who came from a nice home. I’ve met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.”

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10. “Each was over fifty and poor, probably homeless, wearing clothes that hadn’t been washed this year. They were the same type of man you could see in any city in America, in a little park or square just off downtown, halfway to skid row. I think they started making them after the Civil War; fighters who’d lost their wars and lost their fight. Even when their side won, they lost.”

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11. “The teller has no responsibility to make the listener believe in the truth. Each must take the words and make them their own. No one can do this for another.”

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12. “I wasn’t only sad – I was angry. I still felt lost in a dark, terrifying maze. And I was furious at the world for leaving me here.”

— Sara Gran

13. “Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.”

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14. “Because we’d all been handed heaven on a silver platter, and instead we’d kicked it away and asked for hell.”

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15. “No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain’t no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don’t feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.”

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16. “I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.”

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17. “He leaned over and kissed me – not for the first time, but it still felt like something. Like something I don’t remember having felt before, or at least for a long time. Like a door had been opened that had been shut so long ago that I forgot it was there, and whatever was behind that door was younger and brighter and less burdened than what I’d becom.”

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18. “The law was for people who needed instructions, she would later tell me. The same people who needed to be told not to put a baby in the dryer or a dog in the microwave.”

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19. “A new car in every driveway. Every house had a little lawn out front, and every blade of grass on each lawn was trimmed down to the exact same height. Some of the ladies had flower beds and even the flowers all looked alike, something small and pink. There wasn’t a person out on the streets, which made sense seeing as there were no sidewalks – the lawns came all the way out to the road. It gave me the creeps. Each.”

— Sara Gran

20. “We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn’t last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.”

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21. “Constance helped Mick see that there are never any sides. Only things we understand and things we have chosen to pretend we don’t understand. Only those we admit we love and those we pretend we don’t recognize.”

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22. “Wasn’t solving mysteries important? Didn’t the truth matter? Of course, Silette had foreseen this. He knew the truth was, and always would be, the most unpopular point of view. “If there is anything that can unify us,” he wrote to Constance during the Paris uprising, already old and bitter, “it is our love of deceit and lies, and our abhorrence of the truth.”

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23. “Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets.”

— Sara Gran

24. “Mysteries never end,” Silette wrote. “And we solve them anyway, knowing we are both solving both everything and nothing. We solve them knowing the world will surely be as poorly or even worse off than before. But this is the piece of life we have been given authority over, nothing else; and while we may ask why over and over, no one yet has been given an answer.”

— Sara Gran

25. “Is the thing we love always our downfall? Always our destruction?”

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26. “Mysteries never end,” Constance Darling, Silette’s student, told me once, “And I always thought maybe none of them really get solved, either. We only pretend we understand when we can’t bear it anymore. We close the file and close the case, but that doesn’t mean we’ve found the truth, Claire. It only means that we’ve given up up on this mystery and decided to loo for truth someplace else.”

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27. “I was glad I wasn’t pretty anymore. It was so much easier to do things like this without being pretty.”

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28. “Consider the possibility,’” I said, quoting Silette, “’that what we perceive as the future has already happened, and intuition is only a very good memory.”

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29. “Later, as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.”

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30. “To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.”

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31. “To let go of the self is the highest calling of the self, something that few achieve. And something that every self, whether she knows it or not, aspires.”

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32. “The fat lady never really sings her last song. She only changes costumes and goes on to the next.”

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33. “He realized that you can try as hard as you want to escape who you are, but eventually, you realize there is no escape. There’s nowhere to run, and nothing to run to. Nothing ever really changes. The state of life on earth is exactly what it is, and the only chance of a happy life is accepting that. Accepting life as it is. And knowing that there is no escape. And that’s the only freedom he’s ever been able to find.”

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34. “But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you’ve been too dumb to take, doors you’ve been too blind to step through.”

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35. “Omens change. Signs shift. Nothing is permanent.”

— Sara Gran

36. “People thought money would make them happy. But money was the consolation prize in life. Money was what you had left to dream for when all the other dreams died. Money was what would keep you going when nothing else could delight you again.”

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37. “The thing about this city,” Andray said. “It knows how to tell a beautiful story. It truly does. But if you’re looking for a happy ending, you better be lookin’ somewhere else.”

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38. “WE COULD devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either.”

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39. “I’d been so alone that I’d thought it was just the feeling of life when it went on too long.”

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40. “Books are heavy and dirty and messy and have strong smells and leave your skin dry and dusty.”

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41. “This was starting to be fun – strange and wealthy men barking instructions at me, and me ignoring those instructions. Not a bad hobby.”

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42. “Much of my life was a dreary grind in which I was responsible for everything, always. For someone else to take that responsibility, even for a few minutes, was pure pleasure.”

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43. “Everything that was his was now no one’s; everything he’d seen and felt and knew was now gone.”

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44. “If you ever forgot that money did not buy what mattered in life, New York pizza would remind you.”

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45. “But age isn’t just time passing. It’s time breaking you – your will, your heart, your beliefs.”

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46. “We both expected to become less passionate, to fight more, to take each other for granted as time went on. But we never did. We developed routines and schedules, but we continued to astound each other, and to amaze ourselves with our own ability to love. Neither of us had believed we had it in us, this capacity for rapturous, uncomplicated, unconditional love. As it turned out, we had everything we needed.”

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47. “Book people aren’t exactly silver-lining types.”

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48. “I wasn’t just wrong. I was wrong in such a vast and specific way that I felt like the punchline of a cruel joke.”

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49. “Most friends had fallen away over the years. Either they’d started avoiding me, as if my grief and bad luck were contagious, or I’d started to avoid them, unwilling to give them the chance to disappoint me. Besides, too much time around normal people made me feel like an alien, unwanted and ugly, fluent in a different language.”

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50. “I was someone who questioned. I was someone who probed. I was someone who looked under rocks and peeked into medicine cabinets.”

— Sara Gran