Laura > Laura's Quotes

“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”
― Tanith Lee, Wolf Star

“Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.”
― Tanith Lee, Delirium's Mistress

“I was no one's sacrifice. Not then. Not now. Not ever.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“It’s never enough, is it? Time. We always think we have so much of it, but when it really counts, we don’t have enough at all.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“In a few weeks, someone would find the four of them frozen solid or, even more likely, half-eaten by a litter of feral cats. (Cats were adorable, but they were also monsters.)”
― Jenn Reese, Puzzleheart

“I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“Yes, the giant transport bot is going to help the construct SecUnit pretend to be human. This will go well.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“You would think a SecUnit who had been shot to pieces multiple times, blown up, memory purged, and once partially dismantled by accident wouldn’t be on the verge of panic under these circumstances. You’d be wrong.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“said, “Sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“tapped the feed in acknowledgment, because if I tried to say anything else I was going to sound stupid and emotional.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“(I know that’s actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren’t happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.) The”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I looked down. I was dripping onto the floor, a mix of blood and fluid. I hate it when I leak.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“this was the first time I’d had anything on me that officially labeled me as human. It was weird. I didn’t like it.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that.”
― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

“Some people simply weren’t winter people. Sera, on the other hand, was the most winter person to ever winter. No matter how tedious it was to keep the firewood topped up and keep casting the heat spells, no matter how annoying the inconsistent hot water and temperamental boiler, this was her time.”
― Sangu Mandanna, A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

“hate it when people refer to books as a guilty pleasure or, worse, as a trash read. Discounting books because they’re fun to read rankles me. It’s even worse when parents try to steer their children away from the books the kid is enthusiastic about to a book the parent thinks is more worthy of the child’s time. Taking the joy out of reading makes it a chore instead of a passion.”
― Emmeline Duncan, Mayhem at a Halloween Wedding

“Family wasn’t only flesh and blood, though. Family was about who loved you and who built you up, not tore you down.”
― Bellamy Rose, Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder: A Novel

“Honestly, I feel like friend breakups are worse than romantic breakups. And way less people are out there writing songs about them.”
― Bellamy Rose, Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder: A Novel

“No hugging,” I warned her. It was in our contract. “Do you need emotional support? Do you want me to call someone?”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Man, was she maybe an asshole? Not forming attachments to people, places, or things”
― Rosie Danan, Fan Service

“Devin had never met someone so bad at acting like a human.”
― Rosie Danan, Fan Service

“Shake what off?” “Whatever’s going on in your head that’s making you all stiff and scowly.” “My personality?” she said helplessly.”
― Rosie Danan, Fan Service