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Actually, it's not so much that I've forgotten. It's more like I've stopped keeping track. — Sara Gruen

his hat from his head and presses it to his chest. I walk a few dozen yards from the train, climb the grassy bank, and sit rubbing my — Sara Gruen

...strangely alone in the most public of places. — Sara Gruen

In seventy years, I've never told a blessed soul. — Sara Gruen

And Flying Changes. Her works have been translated into forty-three languages and have — Sara Gruen

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen

She's not your friend. She's a barmaid. — Sara Gruen

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect. — Sara Gruen

It was full of luxurious trappings and shiny baubles, and that had blinded me to the fact that nothing about it was real. — Sara Gruen

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. — Sara Gruen

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back — Sara Gruen

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of. — Sara Gruen

ones I had watched. — Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots? — Sara Gruen

90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me? — Sara Gruen

I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it. — Sara Gruen

It seems there's nothing so good or pure it can't be taken without a moment's notice. And then in the end, it all gets taken anyway. — Sara Gruen

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

Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head ... — Sara Gruen

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey! — Sara Gruen

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate. — Sara Gruen

I came home poorer by several hundred dollars and richer by more books than I could carry. — Sara Gruen

Don't mind Russ," he says. "He's a good kid underneath all those holes, although it's a wonder he doesn't spring a leak when he drinks — Sara Gruen

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. — Sara Gruen

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so. — Sara Gruen

He whispers in her ear, and she basks in his attention, trumpeting happily at the sight of him.
Doesn't she remember? — Sara Gruen

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence. — Sara Gruen

I had my whole life planned.. I knew exactly where it was taking me.. — Sara Gruen

Being the survivor stinks. — Sara Gruen

And August was a force. Charming, gregarious, — Sara Gruen

My intention that people will feel like throttling her — Sara Gruen

Always carry a large flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and further, always carry a small snake. — Sara Gruen

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks? — Sara Gruen

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it. — Sara Gruen

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control. — Sara Gruen

Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell? — Sara Gruen

exactly what she was really doing. It took but — Sara Gruen

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life. — Sara Gruen

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. — Sara Gruen

Age is a terrible thief. — Sara Gruen

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should? — Sara Gruen

age is a terrible theif — Sara Gruen

Life is the greatest show on earth! — Sara Gruen

Paraded around town in an elephant cage, an elephant who repeatedly pulled her stake and stole the lemonade, — Sara Gruen

I just think I'm better equipped to make a study of human personality than trying to get into the mind of animals. — Sara Gruen

game? - but I wasn't shocked, as I once might — Sara Gruen

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning. — Sara Gruen

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen

When did I stop being me? — Sara Gruen

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

When she comes to retrieve me [in the nursing home], after the tan-colored pudding with edible oil topping has sat for a while and been removed ... — Sara Gruen

The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable was one of the aphorisms his boss liked to quote. — Sara Gruen

She had been warned away from it her entire life, for its depth came quickly, its coldness was fierce, and the Kelpie lay in wait. — Sara Gruen

If you expect people to try to do things your way, you're going to have to give some hints as to what that way is. — 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. — Sara Gruen

But my darling was as frail as a bird. She died nine days later. After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled. Although — Sara Gruen

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing. — Sara Gruen

The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness. — Sara Gruen

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. — Sara Gruen

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. — Sara Gruen

Now, go shovel some shit. — Sara Gruen

They grew fat and happy
the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter. — Sara Gruen

I stared at him for a long time. If he wanted to end his search for the beast, he need look no further than a mirror. — Sara Gruen

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all ... — Sara Gruen

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way. — Sara Gruen

Poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew. — Sara Gruen

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. — Sara Gruen

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? — Sara Gruen

He's paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic? — Sara Gruen

His mother was exacting revenge because he'd dared to marry me, and his father - well, we weren't exactly sure. Either — Sara Gruen

The longer I do this job, the less I like people. The species, of course," he adds grimly. "There are individuals I like just fine. — Sara Gruen

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want. — Sara Gruen

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of. — Sara Gruen

off, but Osgood, the photographer, was already snoring softly. He was in the center seat, wedged between John Thigpen and — Sara Gruen

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here — Sara Gruen

The sky the sky- same as it always was. — Sara Gruen

He only had the imperfect medium of words. — Sara Gruen

Laughter, I noticed a footman in old-fashioned knee breeches perched near the top of a — Sara Gruen

How hard can it be to find a girl and an elephant for Christ's sake? — Sara Gruen

Beneath it was a photograph of Hank alone, standing shirtless on the deck of a sailboat with his hands on his hips. — Sara Gruen

I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them. — Sara Gruen

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. — Sara Gruen

We traveled for two weeks with a pickled hippo. — Sara Gruen

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul. — Sara Gruen

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate. — Sara Gruen