Laurel > Laurel's Quotes

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye. ”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent.”
― ML Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“He’s lived the life he’s lived. He’s loved the woman he’s loved. No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on this earth, and that’s all right by him.”
― M.L. Stedman

“A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.”
― Kate Morton , The Forgotten Garden

“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
― Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman