8 Quotes by Sara Levine

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup.

They are suspicious of humanism, nervous about too much style, and wary of public celebrations of the personal.

The essay is a modest genre. It doesn't mean to change the world. Instead it says: let me tell you what happened to me.

I knew very well what Lars meant when he praised me, and held me, and indicated through a caress that he liked me just the way I was; I knew, better than he knew himself, that he wanted to ensure he never be confronted with what, in his own personality, might need pruning or pushing or prodding, that behind every show of support he gave, for me here, for me now, there lurked a terrified refusal to acknowledge his own potential to grow.

A painful truth I’d learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can’t fertilize friends and grow them with you.

You do know what I mean about Mom. It’s like she radios into headquarters for Dad’s feelings when she senses hers need backup.