Sara Gran Quotes

#1. It doesn't matter what people want to hear. It doesn't matter if people like you. It doesn't matter if the whole world thinks you're crazy. It doesn't matter whose heart you break. What matters is the truth.

Sara Gran

#2. There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn't have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren't brave enough to see. Only tones you refused to admit you could hear.

Sara Gran

#3. I was glad I wasn't pretty anymore. It was so much easier to do things like this without being pretty.

Sara Gran

#4. Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies
at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

Sara Gran

#5. Some people, I saw, had drowned right away, and some people were drowning in slow motion, drowning a little bit at a time, and would be drowning for years. And some people, like Mick, had always been drowning, they just didn't know what to call it until now.

Sara Gran

#6. Happiness is the temporary result of denying the knowledge one already has.

Sara Gran

#7. If you consider yourself a writer just write.

Sara Gran

#8. Did I really think it was wonderful? Wonderful was probably an exaggeration. I thought it was fine. Maybe even good. I couldn't say the last time I thought anything was exactly wonderful. That implied more joy than I may ever have felt.

Sara Gran

#9. Those who try to grasp on to the mystery will never succeed. Only those who let it slip their fingers will come to know it, and hear its secrets

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#10. Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That's where you get to show who you really are

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#11. There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.

Sara Gran

#12. Never be afraid to learn from the ether ... That's where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a book.

Sara Gran

#13. I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

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#14. Karma is not a sentence already printed. It is a series of words that authors can arrange as she chooses.

Sara Gran

#15. We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be.
But it doesn't last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

Sara Gran