Laura > Laura's Quotes

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's
why.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“They never see me coming.
Know why?
Because I’m already there.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“I fool everybody!”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Eric approached the octagonal nurses’ station, and a blonde nurse
looked up from her computer monitor, smiled, and pointed to
examining room  D. Everybody recognized the hospital shrinks
from the bright red W on their lanyard IDs. The W stood for
Wright, the wing that contained the locked psych unit, but the
staff teased that W stood for Wackos. He’d heard all the jokes—
How do you tell the psychiatrists from the patients in the hospital?
The patients get better and leave. Eric told the best psychiatrist
jokes, though he never told the ones about psychiatrist’s kids. He
didn’t think those were funny. He lived those.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Yes. He knows I’m dying, but he can’t really accept it and
he’ll be all alone when I’m gone. Can’t you help him?”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter