182 Quotes by Sara Gruen

Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I’d choose the corn.

Sometimes when you get older – and I’m not talking about you, I’m talking generally, because everyone ages differently – things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they’re part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they’re not true – why, then you get offended because you can’t remember the first part. All you know is that you’ve been called a liar.

His mother was exacting revenge because he’d dared to marry me, and his father – well, we weren’t exactly sure. Either.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:.

For the rest of the night, all I could think about was how many heads had lain on those pillows before my own.

It’s just a crazy damned life, that’s all...

It’s like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.

Life. There it was. In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life, and those of us who’d been lucky enough to survive opened our arms wide and embraced it.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I’m writing.