Laura Drake > Laura's Quotes

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Today, death rides a bicycle. My bicycle.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“Some ‘blended’ families come together like coffee and cream, swirling in beautiful patterns until they become one, forming a new color. Our family came together like two chunks of summer-hardened concrete. Roger is the rubber expansion strip between, keeping the edges from grinding together.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“. It’s as if, after swimming upstream in the chilly waters of my childhood, I’ve reached a warm sea, where I can simply float. I haven’t been willing to stir the familial sediment at the bottom. After all, that’s where all the shit is.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“I was a quiet, easy baby. Martha came out rebelling and never gave up the insurgency. I learned young that the daughter of an Army General toes the line. Martha jumped rope with it.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger

“A tiny fissure opened that day, like a small crack in the cement foundation of your house. Either you don’t notice it, or you figure it’s just cosmetic. No big deal.
Until the floor gives way beneath you.”
― Laura Drake, For Roger