Sarah Will
Sarah Will
Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medalswhile competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. Will serves as a ski instructor and is otherwise active in the Vail community. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is a nominee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame...
hands done return
I hoped this was true. Even if it wasn‟t, all I could do was hand over what I could, with the hope of something in return. But of course, this was easier said than done.
trying new-friends forget
Even if you do make tons of new friends,” I told him, “try not to forget where you came from, okay?
believe ideas return
How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.
talking want instinct
If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.
heart doors yellow
But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side
knowing not-knowing better-off
Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
levels safe dangerous
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
believe together happy-endings
Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
pain hair mourning
So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.
differences adam bigs
I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
age improvement ifs
As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.
grateful dark light
I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
forever speechless rebuttal
As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.
two chloe world
One word," Ted replied, dead serious, "can change the whole world." There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), "I bet he did really well on his SATs.