Sara Gruen Quotes - Page 3

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• ... a gaggle of old ladies is glued to the window at the end of the hall like children or jailbirds. They're spidery and frail, their hair as fine as mist. Most of them are a good decade younger than me, and this astounds me. Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.--There are five of them now, white headed old things huddled together and pointing crooked fingers at the glass.

  Sara Gruen

  Children, Glasses, Hair

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• I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals.

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  Animal, Thinking, Personality

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• 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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  Grateful, Kids, Vegetables

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• 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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  Kids, College, Here I Am

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.306, Hachette UK

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• Being the survivor stinks.

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  Survivor, Stink

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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• 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.

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  Elephants, Giving, Firsts

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• What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

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  Reality, Matter, Crux

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.113, Hachette UK

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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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  Hurt, Feet, Water

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.35, Hachette UK

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

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  Roots, Leaving

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• I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.

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  Lying, Bed, Married

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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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  People, Want, Illusion

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• ...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

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  Jello, Red, Breasts

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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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  Truth, Elephants, Secret

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• I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

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  Elephants, Water, Add

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• My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

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  Real, War, What If

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• We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo.

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  Two, Week, Hippo

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• They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

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  Horse, Children, Matter

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• At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

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  Writing, Perfect, Stories

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

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  Betrayal, Mind, Body

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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• How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake?

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  Girl, Elephants, Sake

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• The sky the sky- same as it always was.

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  Sky

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

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  Pockets, Littles, Protect

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

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  Elephants, Normalcy, Goes On

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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

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  Hands, Years, Together

  "Water for Elephants". Book by Sara Gruen, 26 May 2006.

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• 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.

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  Blue, Sky, Sides

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