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Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Sara Gruen

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Sara Gruen
Age: 56
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Vancouver
British Columbia
Tipsy
Delirious
Hips
Break

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The thought has cheered me, and I'd like to hang onto that. Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
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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?
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But it all zipped by. One minute Marlena and I were up to our eyeballs, and the next thing we knew the kids were borrowing the car and fleeing the coop for college. And now, here I am. In my nineties and alone.
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...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.
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Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
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When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
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Must protect my little pockets of happiness.
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.
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With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
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Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?
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Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.
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Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.
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I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.
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I roll onto my side and stare out the venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. After a few minutes I'm lulled into a sort of peace. The sky, the sky--same as it always was.
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They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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