Sarah Crossan > Quotes

“I allow myself to be right here, in the moment, savouring the peace. All the millions and millions of stars remind me, too, how small and fragile I am. And unimportant, really. If this branch were to creak and moan and break under my weight, and I were to plummet to the ground, the stars in the sky would continue to decorate the world. And even if the last tree disappears from our planet, the stars will still be up there.”
― Sarah Crossan, Breathe

“Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“What can we forgive?
Anything.
If that's what we choose.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Time travel me back.
Let me say good-bye again.
A minute more,
a moment,
a chance to see. . .”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Normal is the Holy Grail
and only those without it
know its value.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Just because no one's managed something in the past, doesn't mean the future's lost.”
― Sarah Crossan, Resist

“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“I don't believe in God today.

I don't even believe in people.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Poetry can teach us about ourselves. It can comfort us when we are in despair. It can bring joy. But not only that...it can open us up. It can make our worlds bigger and brighter and clearer. It can *transform* us" -Mr. Gaydon”
― Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain

“I am alive and I am alone in a land of so much space.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“No goodbye is forever
unless you can
erase everything you ever
knew about a person and
everything you once felt.”
― Sarah Crossan, Toffee

“When I am alone
I do not know who I am.

When I am alone
I am nothing.”
― Sarah Crossan, The Weight of Water

“You stay in today, Joe,
'cause tomorrow's a story that ain't been written yet.
No use in rehearsing it.
No use at all.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Breathing is a right, not a privilege, so I’m stealing it back. I’m nervous, but I’m not scared.”
― Sarah Crossan, Breathe

“What am I supposed to do?
I don't know
so I say the words I would want to hear.
'Go, if you have to.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“I don't know why I didn't
put my arms around her,
tell her it's OK,
that I know she never meant to hurt me,
that sometimes we like people we shouldn't
and by the time we feel
what we feel
it's already too late.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Will you be ok if I'm not around? he asked.
Sure, I said,
but I didn't mean it.
Ed was my brother but also sort of like
my dad
and my best friend too.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Are you kidding?
You are normal.
And normal is good.
Normal is my goal,'
I tell him.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“she meant that love is quiet doing-
a day to day toil in the dark." -Apple”
― Sarah Crossan, Apple and Rain

“I don't want you to write a poem for me
But it would be nice if you did.

And if you bought a rose for me
It would be OK too
But I don't want you to buy flowers
Necessarily.

I don't want you to carry my book bag
But if you feel like doing that
Spontaneously
I wouldn't stop you.

I wouldn't stop you being romantic
If that's what you wanted.”
― Sarah Crossan, The Weight of Water

“Around here normal is a slur,' he says, 'Deep down everyone wants to be a star and normal is the road to nothingness.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“I take his chin between my fingers.

We come together.”
― Sarah Crossan, We Come Apart

“Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.
So death for Ed
but not for everyone.

Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.

Like,
don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.

Just doesn't seen fair to me.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“Death row is a place for broken people
just like Tom Hanks.
They can't be fixed,
warped all out of shape
by the cracks and splinters inside them.

And what else can you do with stuff that's broken
except throw it in the trash?

Right?”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise

“And what scares me most is that as each day passes, my hope wanes a little more, when hope is the only thing I have to hold on to. There”
― Sarah Crossan, Resist

“It will rain by noon.
And then it will be fine again.

It will.”
― Sarah Crossan, Toffee

“Death

What does death feel like?
Sleeping?
Being in a dark and silent dream?

Maybe that would be OK—
if nothingness
is all it is.

But I’m kidding myself.

It must be worse than that or people
wouldn’t so
furiously
avoid it.

Maybe death is white and
glaring.

Maybe it is a lack of sleep,

a pure awakening—

a deafening reality
that is truly
unbearable.

But no one will ever know
how it feels
until he arrives there.

All I know now is that it
looks like
a brass-handled coffin being
lowered
into the ground,

and
I’ve absolutely no interest
in getting into one
of those things.”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“Isn't it funny how something so abstract can speak to us?”
― Sarah Crossan, One

“So,
do all the stuff you want even
if someone tries to deadlock your front door.
Be brave about it.
Open the back door at night
and let in the noises, or hell,
I don’t know, run, escape if you have to.
If that’s the only way to live.
And if someone tries to stop you,
you tell them you can’t save anyone’s life
but your own.”
― Sarah Crossan, Moonrise