Sarah Hahn Campbell > Quotes

“That’s when I realized I’d fallen in love with you. You, professor. It was never just that you were a woman. It was that you were you, even exasperating you with your self-denial and your humor that masked your true feelings, even confusing you in your generic faculty house. I wanted you, your laughter, your brilliance, your deep-brown eyes, the you of the day on Highway 9.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Beginning of Us

“Maybe we should have thought it strange for a student and her professor to go on a road trip, but you are only eight years older than I am, and you so often seem younger, even with all those acronyms after your name. Especially when you drove down Highway 9 in your red Mazda Miata with the top down, singing to Janis Joplin at the top of your lungs. I swear you didn’t care where we were going. You just loved the wind and the road, the sensation that we were moving somewhere.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Beginning of Us

“You said you fell in love with Iowa as you fell in love with me, but maybe we were always the same thing. I grew from this soil, after all.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Beginning of Us

“My powerlessness overwhelms me. I don’t know where to find you, how to reach you, how to understand you. All I can do is write to you here. If I keep talking to you here, you’re not gone. I can imagine you’re listening.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Beginning of Us

“I stuck out my hand and you shook it, and your hand was so small and delicate, a surprising hand for someone who seemed to fill the room.”
― Sarah Brooks, The Beginning of Us