Sarvenaz Tash > Quotes

“And who wouldn't wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to be. Because even worlds with dragons and time machines seem to be more ordered than our own. When you live for stories, when you spend so much of your time immersed in careful constructs of three and five acts, it sometimes feels like you're just stumbling through the rest of life, trying to divine meaningful narrative threads from the chaos. Which, as I learned the hard way this weekend, can be painfully fruitless. Fiction is there when real life fails you. But it's not a substitute.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Sometimes all we have is the knowledge that something extraordinary exists in the universe, even if we can't be the ones to claim it. Sometimes that has to be enough.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Mapmaker and the Ghost

“But for once, I see all those characters and I don't really envy them their fantasy worlds. I'm okay with my reality, as messy and imperfect as it may be. I don't really know what comes next, but honestly isn't that the best part of writing a story anyway?
Maybe it's the best part of real life, too" -Graham”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Mapmaker and the Ghost

“It's true - we never say what we mean. But for once, I want to.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“We're all constantly changing and evolving and growing up. You're a writer. You should get that more than anyone.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Well, then. There's no aspiring about it. If you write, you're a writer. Maybe getting paid for it is a different can of worms, but being a writer itself? Don't doubt that's what you are" -Emmett”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“Broken hearts mend.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“There's no wrong way. Wherever you're at, you have to make it what you want it to be”
― Sarvenaz Tash, Three Day Summer

“Now is all we have, really. And we never know when now will be the instant that changes everything.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, Three Day Summer

“But I also know he'll probably be a more complex characters because of some of the things I've just gone through. Isn't that what writers are supposed to do? Gather life experience so that they can channel them and create great art?" -Graham”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“But I don't know if everything is going to be exactly like it was before. But come one, Graham - when is that ever true? We're all constantly changing and evolving and growing up. You're a writer. You should get that more than anyone" -Felicia”
― Sarvenaz Tash, The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love

“But people need different things from different relationships. And I don't think a close friendship is dissimilar from a romantic relationship.”
― Sarvenaz Tash, Virtually Yours