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  • #1
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #2
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits

  • #3
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #4
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other.

    As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #5
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits

  • #6
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love
    tags: men

  • #7
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
    The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #8
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

  • #9
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits

  • #10
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #11
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

  • #12
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means

    Poor Justin!”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #13
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Because high school only comes around once, and I would hate to look back and think I didn’t make the most of every moment because I was scared of what other people thought. Other people never think that much about you anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt said that.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #14
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Mike only laughed. “‘Methinks the lady doth protest too much.’”
    Gigi - “Methinks that is the only Shakespeare line thou doth know.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #15
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

  • #16
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “Life is a lease and God is the landlord.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer

  • #17
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

  • #18
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

  • #19
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “For years, he’s been listening to her complain about being ignored by Justin and assuring it her it was simply a matter of time until his friend saw the light. After all, if Henry was friends with Neerja and Henry was friends with Justin then, logically, Justin would be friends with Neerja. According to Henry, their eventual relationship was dictated by the transitive property.

    But Neerja didn’t want to be ‘just friends’ with Justin, and she was tired of waiting for the transitive property to jump-start her love life.”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

  • #20
    Sarah Strohmeyer
    “If we were allowed to go online here, I'd tell you to search Wikipedia for chickens plus cannibals so that you could verify."
    "Wikipedia's your source?" That was laughable. "Oh, please. The poultry industry probably paid big money to get chicken cannibals on there. It's an urban myth."
    ...
    "Why would the poultry industry spread a myth that chickens were cannibals?”
    Sarah Strohmeyer, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

  • #21
    S.E. Hinton
    “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #22
    S.E. Hinton
    “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #23
    S.E. Hinton
    “bewildering feeling of being rushed, things are happening too quick. Too fast. I figured I couldn’t get into any worse trouble than murder. Johnny and I would be hiding for the rest of our lives. Nobody but Dally would know where we were, and he couldn’t tell anyone because he’d get jailed again for giving us that gun. If Johnny got caught, they’d give him the electric chair, and if they caught me, I’d be sent to a reformatory. I’d heard about reformatories from Curly Shepard and I didn’t want to go to one at all. So we’d have to be hermits for the”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #24
    S.E. Hinton
    “He estado pensando en esto, y el poema aquel, el tío que lo escribió, quiso decir que eres dorado mientras eres un niño, como lo verde. Cuando eres niño todo es nuevo, el amanecer. Sólo cuando te acostumbras a las cosas se hace de día. Como lo mucho que te gustan las puestas de sol, Pony. Eso es dorado. Sigue siendo así, es una buena manera de ser. Quiero que convenzas a Dally para que mire una puesta de sol. Seguramente creerá que te has vuelto loco, pero pídeselo por mí. No creo que el haya visto nunca una puesta del sol. Y procura que no te joda tanto ser un greaser. Aún te queda mucho tiempo para hacer de ti lo que de verdad quieres ser. Aún quedan un montón de cosas buenas en el mundo. Díselo a Dally. No creo que lo sepa.”
    Susan E. Hinton, Rebeldes

  • #25
    S.E. Hinton
    “I wondered for a long time how to start that theme, how to start writing
    about something that was important to me. And I finally began like this: When I stepped
    out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things
    on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home...”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #26
    S.E. Hinton
    “aquel cuerpo—. Eh, Johnnycake. Johnny no abrió los ojos, pero emitió una débil pregunta. —¿Soda? —Sí, soy yo —dijo Sodapop—. No hables. Te pondrás bien. —Eran un montón —empezó Johnny, tragando, sin hacer caso de la orden de Soda—. Un Mustang azul lleno de ellos... Me acojoné... —intentó soltar un taco, pero de pronto se echó a llorar, luchando por controlarse, y llorando más porque no lo logró. Johnny se había llevado más de una con la fusta de su viejo, pero nunca soltó ni un quejido. Eso ponía peor las cosas, pues le costaba trabajo aliviarse. Soda no hizo más que sujetarle y apartarle el pelo de los ojos. —No te preocupes, Johnny. Se han ido. No te preocupes. Finalmente, entre sollozos, Johnny pudo contarnos cómo había sido. Estaba en el solar con el balón para practicar un poco, cuando un Mustang azul aparcó al lado. Venían cuatro socs. Le cogieron; uno de ellos llevaba la mano llena de anillos; eso fue lo que le hizo tantos cortes. No fue sólo cosa del palizón que le habían dado. Además, le habían aterrorizado. Le habían amenazado con toda clase de cosas. Johnny era muy excitable, una secuela nerviosa de las muchas veces que le habían pegado, de tanto oír pelearse a sus padres todo el tiempo. Vivir en esas condiciones habría vuelto amargo y rebelde a cualquier otro; a Johnny le estaba matando. Nunca había sido un cobarde. Era un buen tío a la hora de pelear contra otra pandilla. Estaba muy unido a la nuestra, y mantenía la boca bien cerrada cuando se trataba de la bofia. Pero después de la noche de la paliza, Johnny se amedrentaba más que nunca. Yo llegué a creer que jamás lo superaría. Nunca más anduvo por ahí solo. Johnny, que era el que mejor cumplía la ley de todos nosotros, llevaba ahora una faca de seis pulgadas en el bolsillo. Y estaba dispuesto a usarla si volvían a asaltarle. Le habían”
    Susan E. Hinton, Rebeldes

  • #27
    S.E. Hinton
    “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
    S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

  • #28
    Victor Hugo
    “Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.”
    Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

  • #29
    Nicholas Sparks
    “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever”
    Nicholas Sparks

  • #30
    Cassandra Clare
    “There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
    Cassandra Clare, City of Glass



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