Top 90 Sarah Hogle Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

54. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

55. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

58. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

59. “You are perfect.”

— Sarah Hogle

60. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

61. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

62. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

64. “This is how I’ll die: slightly unwilling but ultimately lazy.”

— Sarah Hogle

65. “It’s sexist to assume I wouldn’t know how to fix leaky hoses and sanding belts and whatever else makes a car go vroom. He should assume that all of my lies are true.”

— Sarah Hogle

66. “Stacy can choke on store-bought sugar cookies like the rest of us. Why’s he even bringing them? They’re dentists. They should be eating celery.”

— Sarah Hogle

67. “It’s adorable how he assumes I’m in here making myself pretty instead of smearing a pentagram on the floor in my own blood and casting hexes on him.”

— Sarah Hogle

68. “It feels so lovely to be good to each other.”

— Sarah Hogle

69. “Our next period of silence descends naturally, but if I shone a flashlight over all the dark space that surrounds us, it would illuminate a hundred lingering words.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

71. “This chair is mine now.”

— Sarah Hogle

72. “I never want anyone to hold me again if they don’t hold me like this.”

— Sarah Hogle

73. “I think about how actress is another way of saying professional liar.”

— Sarah Hogle

74. “I’m still irritated and he isn’t. The man is baking cookies, and he’s promised to wash up all the dishes, and now I have nowhere to point my anger because he’s Over It, which means he’s won.”

— Sarah Hogle

75. “I want to believe there are still wonders out there left unspoiled.”

— Sarah Hogle

76. “You’re what’s wrong with me.”

— Sarah Hogle

77. “Are you malfunctioning?” he asks, mildly entertained.”

— Sarah Hogle

78. “All of his texts are grammatically correct.”

— Sarah Hogle

79. “Cardigans are my kryptonite.”

— Sarah Hogle

80. “I want to be commanding, stern, intimidating, but I am raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. My resolve is dandelion fluff.”

— Sarah Hogle

81. “Your problem is that you love everything.”

— Sarah Hogle

82. “Of course I love you, Naomi. I never stopped.”

— Sarah Hogle

83. “I try to remember what falling in love felt like and can’t recall. It must have been over with very quickly.”

— Sarah Hogle

84. “Every meal contains some hint of pumpkin spice. If I’m not ingesting pumpkin, I’m breathing it in like an addict, lining every available surface of my home with candles that smell like food. Apple pie, pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice, apple pumpkin.”

— Sarah Hogle

85. “The best revenge is making peace with a past you can’t change and figuring out how to make the future a happier place for yourself to live in. That’s how you come out on top.”

— Sarah Hogle

86. “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.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

88. “He looks utterly wrecked in the most wonderful way.”

— Sarah Hogle

89. “I love these things about the man. But I do not love the man.”

— Sarah Hogle

90. “My aesthetic is aggressively, unapologetically basic.”

— Sarah Hogle

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

— Sarah Hogle

92. “I wanted to bring your happy place to life.”

— Sarah Hogle

93. “He winks. “Miss me?”

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94. “I am giving him something. Patience. It is a gift.”

— Sarah Hogle