Top 90 Sarah Hogle Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Give yourself permission to put yourself first.”

— Sarah Hogle

2. “You are, and always will be, the most beautiful person I’ve ever known.”

— Sarah Hogle

3. “Not to be dramatic, but I would rather drink battery acid than be in the throes of a crush.”

— Sarah Hogle

4. “You’re my best friend, too. I have more fun with you than anyone else, and I like how you challenge me. I like being around you and when I’m not around you, I’m always thinking about you. I want you to know I’m thinking about you all the time.”

— Sarah Hogle

5. “You’re allowed to defend yourself when people hurt your feelings. You deserve to be around people who are good to you.” Coming.”

— Sarah Hogle

6. “She’s worth the pain of trying. Worth the risk of failing.”

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7. “He’s the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen.”

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8. “I’m miffed with him for being such an I-told-you-so kind of person, which prevents me from coming clean. I’m forced to be just as stubborn as he is irritating.”

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9. “I will always support you, even if it doesn’t look like it. Sometimes support looks like disagreeing with you or telling you that you’re on the wrong path. But your heart is in my heart, always, and all I want for you is a good, healthy life.”

— Sarah Hogle

10. “I didn’t contour a third of my body with this much highlighter to not get any of it on his shirt.”

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11. “We plot how to ruin each other’s lives.”

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12. “One morning after Nicholas’s shower, I draw a heart in the steamy bathroom mirror. He ducks back into the bathroom to brush his teeth and after he’s left it again I find another heart he’s drawn, interlocked with mine.”

— Sarah Hogle

13. “I would, and I’d want to be here for you. Support you and make you feel better. I want you to tell me when you get bad news so you’re not going through it alone.”

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14. “He heaves a deep breath. Wipes a tear away with his thumb. “I’m here, okay?” He grasps my shoulder and squeezes gently. “These aren’t platitudes. I’m right here. And I want to listen. Whenever you’re sad, I want to hear why. I want to know what you’re feeling, all the time, so I can share those feelings with you.”

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15. “If he asks me what’s wrong and my issue isn’t one he can make go away with a few reassuring words, Nicholas gets frustrated. It reminds me of my mother once saying that you can’t tell men about your unfixable problems, because they’ll want to fix them and not being able to do so fries their wiring.”

— Sarah Hogle

16. “But I’ve got news for Nicholas Benjamin Rose: if he thinks I’m not the biggest waste of time that’s ever happened to him, he’s got another think coming.”

— Sarah Hogle

17. “When you build a life with someone, so many of your building blocks prop up your partner, and you’re propped up by theirs, until your foundations merge and walking away risks destabilization for you both.”

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18. “You wanna give me some space?” “Well, you’re not saying anything.” “I’m talking to myself right now. Give us a minute.”

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19. “We’re going to have to choose each other, over and over, and be each other’s champion, never letting ourselves forget the good whenever we’re stuck in a patch of bad.”

— Sarah Hogle

20. “Societal norms have conditioned me into thinking I need these dying plants in order to feel loved and appreciated.”

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21. “He should assume that all of my lies are true.”

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22. “I think he’s under a curse – if he laughs, he’ll die. This is a sensible explanation to me. It isn’t that I’m not a joy to be around, it’s that he’ll literally die.”

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23. “Pregnancy for me at this point would indicate immaculate conception.”

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24. “He calls it his office or his study and in my head I still call it the drawing room, because in a past life I was a duchess and I’ve never quite gotten over being reborn as a commoner in this age.”

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25. “I think you are beautiful, too, Maybell. I think that you walked into my life and absolutely ruined it with how beautiful you are.”

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26. “It’s been too long since I’ve felt heard by anyone.”

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27. “I tried to keep him at a safe distance where he could only see the decent parts of me and it made us both miserable. I inadvertently let him in to see the ugly parts but instead of running away like I’d counted on him to do, he wrapped his arms around all of that ugliness and didn’t let go.”

— Sarah Hogle

28. “He didn’t get me flowers for our anniversary, either, and that’s okay because we know what Real Love is and we don’t have to prove ourselves to each other.”

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29. “We’re in the car on the way to see Debberoni and Harry.”

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30. “During an argument that we had,” he tells me, pitch low, “you called me beautiful. And an insufferable ass. But beautiful. I haven’t gotten over it.”

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31. “We eat in companionable silence as the snow falls steadily around us and darkness smothers the world.”

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32. “It dawns on me that I haven’t seen him genuinely happy in forever. I’ve been so concentrated on my own unhappiness that I haven’t noticed his. I’ve been fooling myself by thinking he’s been content all along. How arrogant, to assume he was content with me when I so obviously wasn’t content with him.”

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33. “It hits me how much I like his laugh.”

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34. “I think you’re beautiful no matter what.”

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35. “Neglecting to wash dishes is one thing. Voluntarily saying you’re going to do it and then not doing it is an act of hostility.”

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36. “I want you to tell me when you get bad news so that you’re not going through it alone.”

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37. “It’s an empty gesture, a dark condemnation. In all the places it’s supposed to please, it stings instead.”

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38. “The only reason he’s choosing to shower right now is so that he has an excuse to ask me to do this for him. It’s like whenever we get home from a trip to the grocery store and he pretends he’s getting an important phone call so that he doesn’t have to help put groceries away.”

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39. “The beginnings are so sparkly, so efortless. You can imagine the other person to be whoever you want. In all the gaps of your knowledge about them, you can paint in whatever qualities you like as placeholders. You can paint the other person into a dream impossible for them to live up to.”

— Sarah Hogle

40. “It’s so much easier to pretend I have a personality where I don’t have any words for anyone, that I don’t care to, rather than not being able to find them.”

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41. “I would like to touch you,” he says faintly. “If that’s okay.”

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42. “If all goes according to plan, he’s going to be limping home tonight with ravaged hair and enough shimmer powder on his clothes to make him reflective to passing cars.”

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43. “He needs me to give voice to my feelings, because he’s not a mind reader and it’s not okay that I soak up what he gives without offering myself in return. I can’t let him think he’s alone, not for one moment.”

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44. “I’m not that strong at all but for you, I can be strong enough.”

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45. “Unhinged” is my new favorite look on him.”

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46. “I know every microscopic detail of his face. I know the shape of his brows for every emotion. He is the most beautiful man who ever lived, and at one time I couldn’t have said with any certainty what color eyes he had. He was no more memorable that a picture hanging on the wall that I’d long gotten used to. How many times did my gaze pass right over him, not realizing he was looking back at me? Always watching. Listening. Waiting.”

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47. “You are perfect.”

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48. “But it’s hard to meet people when you have social anxiety as bad as I do. I panic. Or I want to say one thing, be a certain way, but it gets all tangled up on its way out of my mouth. A pumpkin trying to be flowers and coming off like a cactus. It’s frustrating.”

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49. “The thing about a wedding is: you don’t remember the vows. You forget them the second after your mouth utters the sacred words, because your brain needs the room to catalog every detail of your partner’s face. All of my concentration is on him. Everything is wonderful. Every day is the same. Every day is like our wedding day.”

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50. “I’ll grow you some real ones, if you like.”

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