Sarah Gerard > Quotes

“The longer I live in time, the less I believe in the future.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“The way space-time curves around it: Love is a black hole. Undetectable except by the way it affects other bodies. Invisible but strong. Inescapable.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“Beauty can be tricked into being where it is not. It is naught. It is not the past. Because the longer I live in time, the less I believe in the past.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“People don’t like it when their beliefs are challenged, John. They’re fragile enough already.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“When we originally went to the moon, our total focus was going to the moon. We weren't thinking about looking back at Earth. But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason we went.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“Those who know her know that beneath her anger is tenderness, and beneath her tenderness is fury.”
― Sarah Gerard, True Love

“some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & Sarah Gerard, "The Binary Companion," LA Review of Books, January 22, 2015].”
― Sarah Gerard

“Their conversation was recorded in the subterranean zone of memories never meant to be exhumed.”
― Sarah Gerard, Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

“You’re wearing a leather belt.
I had this before I went vegan. It would be disrespectful to the cow if I threw it away.”
― Sarah Gerard, Binary Star

“There's a whole spectrum of behaviour that men put women through.' He felt implicated by an entire pattern.”
― Sarah Gerard, Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

“I think New York has something to offer me, but it will also steal a part of my sanity.”
― Sarah Gerard, True Love