Laura > Laura's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy