Sarah Ready > Quotes

“When you realize you love someone and that you want to spend the rest of forever with them, you want forever to start right now.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“Don't go pretending darkness has light just because you want to see it there.”
― Sarah Ready, My Dear Illusion

“If you could see my heart, you'd see the space for you in it.”
― Sarah Ready, French Holiday

“So, I guess loving is accepting that it’s about giving and never about taking. If you expect something in return, then love becomes a transaction and it’s not love anymore.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“I’ve had double-Ds since I was twelve. And unlike popular opinion that big breasts are great, all they’ve done for me is give me back aches, make it hard to run, and cause men to speak to my boobs instead of my face.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“What are you doing on my bed?” I ask.
His eyes, always full of sharp intelligence, take in my sauce-covered dress and the blush still lingering on my cheeks.
“What are you doing covered in barbecue?”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“I think of Andi then. She's always there, in the background, like a song playing softly. I wonder how she is. I wonder if she's happy. I won't look for her. I won't try to discover how she's doing. I'll let her go.

That's what River said. I need to let her go.

I send her all my love. I send her my wishes for happiness, and this time around, if she hears me singing, I hope she feels joy.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“When children are spoiled, you can never satisfy them, they are a great empty hole, devouring everything. They search for something to satisfy them, but nothing ever does. Like a stomach stretched out, it takes more and more to fill them - until nothing can. Nothing and no one will ever be enough - it's terribly sad!”
― Sarah Ready, French Holiday

“Your mama loves you a lot,” Liam says. “That’s why I got her you.” “What do you mean?” asks Liam. “I figured, the only person that could make my mama happy was you. ’Cause you’re a hero, like my daddy.”
― Sarah Ready, Hero Ever After

“Women are always told, chin up! Don't complain! Be quiet! Don't ever ask for more. If your life is hard, too bad, that's your lot! Stay with the terrible husband, stick with the horrible job, keep trudging along until you die." She shudders. "No one ever tells women that it's okay to leave. It's okay to get out!”
― Sarah Ready, French Holiday

“It's the moment I love, when a song
comes to you and you decide
whether or not it'll be written.
It's the space between dream and reality.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“When you realize you love someone and that you that you want to spend the rest of forever with them, you want forever to start right now.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“It’s the flaws that make us beautiful after all.”
― Sarah Ready, Hero Ever After

“Before you were born,” he begins. His voice is deep and raspy, “your parents didn’t know you, but they imagined you.” Before you were born, I loved you.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“I can’t let her see that I am too. In all this, I never want her to see how terrified I am. That I can’t handle it, that I’m so terrified that I stay awake at night, that I sob in the shower, that I have to force myself to eat, that I’m so scared for her. I can’t let her see it. I need to be steady for her, so that she never knows that her mama is terrified for her. I have to be her rock, so that if the time comes, she won’t be scared to go. When that time comes, after she’s gone, then I’ll fall apart. But until then, I’ll stitch myself together and I’ll hold it all in, so that not an inch of fear, or nerves, or stress shows through. I”
― Sarah Ready, Hero Ever After

“Haven't you ever read any books? You can paint the walls of your room the color of his eyes, you can save his future child's life from an evil wizard, you can give him your fortune upon your death--”
― sarah ready, French Holiday

“No mother is guaranteed that her children will always love her, or that they’ll never hurt her. In fact, I think the one thing they’re guaranteed is being left behind. And being left behind hurts, even when you’re happy that they’re grown, it still hurts. So, I guess loving is accepting that it’s about giving and never about taking. If you expect something in return, then love becomes a transaction and it’s not love anymore.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“I’m sorry,” I whisper. “I’m sorry I wasn’t able to hold on to you. I’m sorry I messed up. I’m sorry I couldn’t keep ahold of you. I’m sorry.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“It's the moment I love, when a song comes to you and you decide whether or not it'll be written. It's the space between a dream and reality. Will you. Won't you? There's never as much anticipation as in that moment.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“Each of us, all the people in our lives, are like icebergs floating near each other. We only see the top of the icebergs, the faces we show the world, and the”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“Here's the thing. Everyone thinks that someone is brave if they run into a fire or stop a robbery or save someone. Sure, that's brave. But it doesn't take much thought, it just takes action. There's no time for thinking, you act on instinct pure action. Just like falling in love. The first time, you just do it. You dive in head first and fall. There isn't any thought about a crash or about you being broken. So, here's what it means to have courage. After you run into a fire, and it melts your skin and burns your lungs, and someone dies, and you see the horror and feel the pain...after that, you find that you have to go back in again. But this time you know the pain and you know the horror...going back in the second time, that's courage.”
― Sarah Ready, Chasing Romeo

“The second I learned I was pregnant, I loved her. I loved her with my whole heart.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“Suddenly it hits me. Each of us, all the people in our lives, are like icebergs floating near each other. We only see the top of the icebergs, the faces we show the world, and the rest, all our inner lives and secret fears remain hidden underneath the surface.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby

“That girl had my heart, and I was never getting it back.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“I felt alone my entire life, until the minute
I first heard the notes of his song.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“He said when he sings a love song,
he's thinking of me. I'm thinking of him too.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“Before, even two weeks ago, if Henry had said these things to me, my mouth would've gone dry, my stomach would've clenched, and I would've broken out in a cold sweat. But now... I understand. I understand him. He's not trying to control me or change me or anglerfish me. He's just... telling me he knows me.”
― sarah ready, Switched

“That is one big yacht. Real big. The sucker has to be at least a hundred and fifty feet long. It’s a shining white, polished chrome, ginormous ode to penile one-upmanship.”
― Sarah Ready, Chasing Romeo

“I think when we play music, we can reach anyone, anywhere. Music transcends the known world. If you love someone, all you have to do is play music, from your heart and they'll hear you, no matter where they are.”
― Sarah Ready, The Space Between

“Do you think she’ll stick?” I ask. In less than two weeks we’ll know whether or not the transfer worked. Josh pauses, thinks for a long minute, then, “Whether she does or not, she was loved.”
― Sarah Ready, Josh and Gemma Make a Baby