Sarah Strohmeyer > Quotes

“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, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“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, Kindred Spirits

“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, Kindred Spirits

“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, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

“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, Sweet Love

“Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire.
The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits

“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, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“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, Sweet Love

“Mike only laughed. “‘Methinks the lady doth protest too much.’”
Gigi - “Methinks that is the only Shakespeare line thou doth know.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Because high school only comes around once, and I would hate to look back and think I didn’t make the most of every moment because I was scared of what other people thought. Other people never think that much about you anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt said that.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

“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, Sweet Love

“The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means

Poor Justin!”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“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, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Life is a lease and God is the landlord.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer

“The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

“For years, he’s been listening to her complain about being ignored by Justin and assuring it her it was simply a matter of time until his friend saw the light. After all, if Henry was friends with Neerja and Henry was friends with Justin then, logically, Justin would be friends with Neerja. According to Henry, their eventual relationship was dictated by the transitive property.

But Neerja didn’t want to be ‘just friends’ with Justin, and she was tired of waiting for the transitive property to jump-start her love life.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“If we were allowed to go online here, I'd tell you to search Wikipedia for chickens plus cannibals so that you could verify."
"Wikipedia's your source?" That was laughable. "Oh, please. The poultry industry probably paid big money to get chicken cannibals on there. It's an urban myth."
...
"Why would the poultry industry spread a myth that chickens were cannibals?”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

“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, Sweet Love

“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

“In Aunt Boo’s opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, The Secrets of Lily Graves

“That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

“...because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true."

Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

“Like the garlic mustard in my garden and the roses on my fence, love has a funny way of blooming after years of being buried.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Sweet Love

“He bowed deeply before me and slipped to one knee, taking my hand in his and gazing with the perfect Fairyland combination of princely adoration and chaste love. Andy actually applauded, and even my own heart skipped a head - which Ian must have felt because he squeezed my fingers gently.
"Am I forgiven, dearest?" he asked again, batting his eyelashes.
I mouthed, In your dreams! ”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True

“Wow," said Henry. "Awesome. And I'll help you with you know who."
"Who?" Justin said again
"Talking about Dr. Who, J. You know how we nerds love our Who."
"Who? How did you two get on Who? We were talking about the play.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Next to my green eyes, my blond hair is definitely my best feature. So, out of obligation to all the blondes before me (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the many Barbies I have loved and tortured), I tend to spend hours getting it right. You know, so as not to let down the team.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, Smart Girls Get What They Want

“Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.”
― Sarah Strohmeyer, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal