Sara and the Search for Normal Quotes

“I was trying, but was it enough? I felt like I was adding glue, just a little at a time, enough to fix the cracks but never be truly fixed.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I had spent all that time wishing I could magically get better, when I just had to make things better for myself. I had to stop trying to be something I wasn't. I had to stop hating myself and thinking about all the ways I was wrong. I had to stop calling myself Psycho Sara.

My name was Sara Malvern, and I wasn't very normal at all.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Friends are important. You spend a lot of time with them. But you spend way more time with yourself. If keeping a friend means doing something that makes you not like yourself, then it's a bad idea.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Hello, Daniel.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Do me one last favor before you go. Go look in your eyes. Do you see the yellow rings around your pupils? I always think of a star emerging from the darkness. Maybe a supernova.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“The point is this: I have issues. But that's my thing. I'm working on it. Nobody else gets to tell me what I am.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“We are proud of you, Princess."

"For what?"

"For doing this group therapy. For making a friend."

"I think making a friend is pretty commonplace."

"For some. But we all get to set our own goalposts.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“If you want to be someone else at the end of this, then you will be disappointed.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I did think of James still. A lot. I wondered if he would show up again. But I knew he wouldn't. I guess hope had to be used selectively too. I couldn't use it all up on one boy.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“When you spend most of your life being silent to protect yourself and then the first boy to come along makes your heart hurt, then you could probably be forgiven for being rash. Maybe it was a mistake to give up on his so easily. I don't know. But Erin told me I was special, and I guess I wanted all my friends to think that.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“I'm sorry. I don't like myself. Not like this. I won't. Ever."
"He nodded. Then we had better find a reason to start.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“Sometimes I hear people say, 'It must be hard to be crazy.' And it is. But they should also say 'It must be hard to love someone who is crazy.' They have to see the pain, but never hear the whispers.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal