Laura > Laura's Quotes

“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.

- An Eightieth Birthday”
― Tove Jansson, Travelling Light

“I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.”
― Elena Ferrante

“On niitä jotka jäävät ja toisia jotka lähtevät, niin on ollut aina. Kukin saa valita itse, mutta on valittava ajoissa, eikä koskaan saa antaa periksi.”
― Tove Jansson

“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.”
― Winona Ryder

“What I'm really scared of is believing the words society makes me speak are my own.”
― Sayaka Murata, Earthlings

“No matter what you’ve been through, your story is one among many. Try focusing on that,” she says. “Focus on the feeling of the world getting wider.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“It is only when you get older that everyone makes you feel bad about being alone, or implies that spending time with other people is somehow better, because it proves you to be likeable.

But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“Our deepest memories are like infinite roots reflected in the brook, a simulacrum without end. And yet every story, like every life, lasts only so long.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories

“I used to think there was such a thing as emptiness, that there were places in the world one could go and be alone. This, I think, is still true, but the error in my reasoning was to assume that alone was somewhere you could go, rather than somewhere you had to be left.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“How are we writing the future of humanity? We're not writing anything, it's writing us. We're windblown leaves. We think we're the wind, but we're just the leaf.”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital

“I used to wonder: Should I tread lightly? Was I walking over the corpses of those who have passed trough, and who were decimated in the nakba? Was I walking over a land, made of decomposed bodies? When I walk in Palestine I feel that am walking on corpses. The images of multitudes of people escaping in terror are always on my mind.”
― Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance