Sarah Rubin > Quotes

“But dreams don't just come true, not really. They come true, and then they get bigger.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer

“If Gran says, 'Reach for the stars--that way, if you miss, you'll land on the moon,' then Mama says, 'If you spend all your time reaching for the stars, don't come crying to me when you walk right into a tree.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer

“And then I wonder who I'm looking at. All these people must have their dreams, too. And maybe that's why they're on the bus to New York City. Maybe they want to be dancers, or singers, or run big companies, or sell inventions. It's strange to try to think of everyone else like that, like my brain isn't big enough to hold all their stories together inside my head, and it makes me feel wobbly to try and imagine all the hopes and dreams that fill up this bus.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer

“All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer

“I wonder whether my love would be divided up more between him and Mama if I'd had him for longer, but I don't think so. I think we stretch out forever in our hearts.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer

“Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.”
― Sarah Rubin, Someday Dancer