Top 100 Sara Gruen Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”

— Sara Gruen

2. “Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.”

— Sara Gruen

3. “Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.”

— Sara Gruen

4. “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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5. “Life goes on with fragile normalcy.”

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6. “One Crow for sorrow, Two Crows for mirth, Three Crows for a wedding, Four Crows for a birth, Five Crows for silver, Six Crows for gold, Seven for a secret, never to be told.”

— Sara Gruen

7. “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.”

— Sara Gruen

8. “Don’t want to get tipsy and break a hip.”

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9. “In the entire history of our marriage, it was the only secret I kept from her, and eventually it became impossible to fix. With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

— Sara Gruen

10. “The sky the sky- same as it always was.”

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11. “Life. There it was. In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life, and those of us who’d been lucky enough to survive opened our arms wide and embraced it.”

— Sara Gruen

12. “Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can’t find myself any more. When did I stop being me?”

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13. “I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror.”

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

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15. “Although there are times I’d give anything to have her back, I’m glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn’t have wanted her to go through that.”

— Sara Gruen

16. “I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn’t put my finger on. But it always came back.”

— Sara Gruen

17. “Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.”

— Sara Gruen

18. “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.”

— Sara Gruen

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19. “Why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?”

— Sara Gruen

20. “In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.”

— Sara Gruen

21. “I just can’t. I’m married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.”

— Sara Gruen

22. “Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.”

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23. “Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”

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24. “I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.”

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25. “Must protect my little pockets of happiness.”

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26. “All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghost of my past rattle around my vacuous present. They crash and bang and make themselves at home, mostly because there’s no competition. I’ve stopped fighting them. They’re crashing and banging around in there now. Make yourselves at home, boys. Stay awhile. Oh, sorry- I see you already have. Damn ghost.”

— Sara Gruen

27. “It’s as though I’ve been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here.”

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28. “Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain’t no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!”

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29. “It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real.”

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30. “Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.”

— Sara Gruen

31. “I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I’m lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky – same as it always was.”

— Sara Gruen

32. “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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33. “The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it’s presence.”

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

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35. “But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.”

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36. “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 guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn’t I run away with the circus?”

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37. “They grew fat and happy – the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.”

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38. “Is where you’re from the place you’re leaving or where you have roots?”

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

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40. “It’s just a crazy damned life, that’s all...”

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41. “We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.”

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42. “It’s hard to reconcile this August with the other one. and to be honest I don’t try very hard. I’ve seen flashes of this August before-This brightness, this conviviality, this generosity of spirit-but I know what he’s capable of, and I won’t forget it. The others can believe what they like, but I don’t believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration And yet I can see how they might be fooled-.”

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43. “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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44. “His mother was exacting revenge because he’d dared to marry me, and his father – well, we weren’t exactly sure. Either.”

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45. “I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. If I don’t know what’s going on in their lives, how am I supposed to insert myself in the conversation?”

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46. “Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.”

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47. “Anna’s parents were staunch Wee Frees, and she wasn’t even allowed to wear face powder, never mind attend a dance. Music itself was not allowed, except on Sundays, and then it had to be for the sake of worship only, and sung unadorned. The senior McKenzies were so strict they confined their cockerel under a bushel basket on the Sabbath so he wouldn’t get up to anything untoward with the hens.”

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48. “It seems there’s nothing so good or pure it can’t be taken without a moment’s notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway.”

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49. “The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.”

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50. “I’m truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and – when I am really lazy – feed my three kids in less than five minutes.”

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