Jennifer Lauck > Quotes

“I can say anything, but the things I want to say are trapped in that wide open space so I don’t say anything at all.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“and then, it's just me alone in bed with a man who can sleep with his back to me while I cry silent tears tha make the pillow wet around my head.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

“I've been the way he's being now, acting tough about things that really hurt me, and I can see right through to the truth. ”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

“All his genius and he’s wrong. I can stay mad forever.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“To live in this world
you must be able to do three things,
to love what is mortal:
to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it
and when the time comes let it go”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“isn't that what happens in us in our lives? Don't we all reach out in our nights and our days, full of some mysterious agenda, and hope another person can somehow read our minds and give us our heart's desire? I wonder why we are like this. What happens to us along the way that makes us so afraid to ask for what we really want? And what do we become when we lose that ability?”
― Jennifer Lauck, Show Me the Way: A Memoir in Stories

“Reverence defined is respect and devotion”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

“You leave a place and people and after a while, you change, they change and whatever it was that connected you to begin with is gone forever”
― Jennifer Lauck, Still Waters

“When you have a feeling about someone and you find out the feeling is true, its a good thing and a bad thing too. It's nice to know your gut is right, but it's terrible to know you're not wanted, especially when there's nowhere else to go”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

“It's a terrible thing to feel alone when you are with other people, when those other people are supposed to be your family even thought they aren't, not really. That kind of being alone makes you feel wrong inside your own body, like you bones don't fit under your skin, like something inside your stomach wants to get out and fly away.”
― Jennifer Lauck, Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found