Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives. Sarah Strohmeyer More Quotes by Sarah Strohmeyer More Quotes From Sarah Strohmeyer This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers. Sarah Strohmeyer stupidpeoplethinking I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories. Sarah Strohmeyer live-lifememoriesthinking A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty. Sarah Strohmeyer motherbabychildren The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing. Sarah Strohmeyer invincibleunited Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires. Sarah Strohmeyer doedesireheart He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know. Sarah Strohmeyer knowsmen If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out. Sarah Strohmeyer fleetingcrushdust Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late. Sarah Strohmeyer waitingtoo-latelong That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world. Sarah Strohmeyer sweetmeanworld Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life. Sarah Strohmeyer riskinspirationway It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people. Sarah Strohmeyer touchingreadingpeople Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death. Sarah Strohmeyer riskpurpose As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right. Sarah Strohmeyer mothermistakepast In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction. Sarah Strohmeyer teenagegirlcute I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away. Sarah Strohmeyer teenagedogchildren Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we’d finally find our people. Sarah Strohmeyer smartcollegecute Life is a lease and God is the landlord. Sarah Strohmeyer landlordleaselife-is We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need. Sarah Strohmeyer perseverancemayneeds The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins. Sarah Strohmeyer sinimaginationwonderful See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important. Sarah Strohmeyer whats-importantimportantpeople
