Quotes from Sarah Strohmeyer

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other. As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be set. We dreamed of Gothic libraries and leafy green quads and romantic dorms with fireplaces and guys who were not only cute but also smart and charming, and, quite possibly, British. In college, we believed, we'd finally find our people.

Because high school only comes around once, and I would hate to look back and think I didn't make the most of every moment because I was scared of what other people thought. Other people never think that much about you anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt said that.

Mike only laughed. "'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.'" Gigi - "Methinks that is the only Shakespeare line thou doth know.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

The most powerful sex organ was the brain, you know what that means Poor Justin!

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who'd somehow survived this teenage craziness of 'he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can't win.' How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

If we were allowed to go online here, I'd tell you to search Wikipedia for chickens plus cannibals so that you could verify." "Wikipedia's your source?" That was laughable. "Oh, please. The poultry industry probably paid big money to get chicken cannibals on there. It's an urban myth." ... "Why would the poultry industry spread a myth that chickens were cannibals?

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

Like the garlic mustard in my garden and the roses on my fence, love has a funny way of blooming after years of being buried.

In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.

because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true." Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all.

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.