Sarah Miller Quotes & Sayings

Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like black people to avoid looking like dorks? — Sarah Miller

Check it out," Gideon says. "I prayed to god to send a sign that I wasn't going to get kicked out of school, and a plane flew overhead. And then another one."
Molly put her hands on her hips. "Behold the celestial event so incredible it happens every 34 seconds." Gid stares at her, uncomprehending. "It's called a flight path," She says. "Your a moron. — Sarah Miller

The pair of us are like salt and sugar: such different flavors, but so close in every other way you could never sort us apart once we're together. — Sarah Miller

I'd like to know how anyone can write the truth about us if we've never met. — Sarah Miller

Behind every successful woman are several confused men who give her something to make fun of. — Sarah Miller

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. — Sarah Miller

I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. — Sarah Miller

Guys are always confused by how
soft and sentimental they are. — Sarah Miller

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing. — Sarah Miller

We should be used to it," Tatiana reasons. "There have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails. — Sarah Miller

Maria cries unashamedly on my shoulder while I whisper and pet her cheek, but Anastasia grips my other hand and stares fiercely back at our Alexander Palace with her wet blue eyes until it is no more than a lemon-colored speck against the sunrise. — Sarah Miller

My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late
our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten. — Sarah Miller

Incredible that the best route to winning friends
is not necessarily kindness or flattery,
but letting them know you won't
tolerate their bullshit. — Sarah Miller

I cross myself and close my eyes. Where we go next, we go together. — Sarah Miller

Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me away. — Sarah Miller

Like most girls, I want a lot. Fame and fortune. Equal rights. Shoes no one else has. But I'd trade all that in for the perfect guy. (Don't tell me there's something wrong with that. I don't know of a single person who doesn't spend most of her time thinking about love.) Anyway, ever since I could think, I have been imagining and reimagining the exact sort of boy I want to love and who would love me back. Basically, I imagine someone who has all the good attributes of the male species and whose bad ones wouldn't ruin my life. — Sarah Miller

I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive. — Sarah Miller

When the windowpanes start to turn from black to gray, my sisters cradle themselves around me, rocking me like the sea until I can taste the salt of our tears — Sarah Miller