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Sarah Mlynowski
Sarah Mlynowski

Sarah Mlynowski, born on January 4, 1977, is an American writer known for her young adult literature. Her works are characterized by humor and light-hearted school stories, which have gained great popularity among young readers. Mlynowski's novels often explore the emotional, friendship, and family relationships of adolescence. more

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“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.”

“The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.”