Sara Ann > Sara Ann's Quotes

“To the stars who listen - and the dreams that answered”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I'm over it. All the little costs of having ADHD that add up in the long run. Lost customers. Overdue bills. Replacement phone chargers. Time spent looking for things. The way it makes me feel, like a child. As if everyone else is a real adult and I'm just pretending. The frustration that I can't do the simple, everyday things that most people can. Like laundry, and making phone calls, and remembering to take out something from the freezer for dinner. It's the missed deadlines for opportunities I could've had. The broken relationships. How people think I'm lazy and selfish. How they think I don't care. How I think I'm lazy and selfish, even though I know I care.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You will always struggle with not feeling productive until you accept that your own joy can be something you produce. It is not the only thing you will make, nor should it be, but it is something valuable and beautiful.”
― Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

“It’s interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing what’s happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you can’t just delete them. You can’t get rid of the past.
Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don’t use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes. This is why understanding how trauma impacts our health is essential for everyone.”
― Bruce D. Perry, What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

“How can you think you’re too much, when I can’t get enough of you?”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“If I like someone, it doesn’t matter if I’ve known them for five minutes or five years. They’re a friend until proven otherwise.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“You feel a lot. Why is that a bad thing?"
"I don't know," I say. "I just know that it is. I just know I'm too much.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“A mess in every way. Someone must have made her see herself that way, and whoever it is, I hate them,”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“Mastering yourself is the work of a lifetime [...] You re not broken. We are all imperfect beings, striving for enlightenment. You just have to strive a little more than most.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby