Laura > Laura's Quotes

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”
― Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Without movement there is no Life...We should use our energy to the fullest.”
― Ai Qing

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.
“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
“No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
― Tuli Kupferberg

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“Der neue Professor sah mich grimmig an. Henry Saints. Er wirkte nicht viel älter als ich, vielleicht Mitte zwanzig, was für einen Professor absurd jung war. Zudem war er schlank und sportlich. Als kaizerlicher Conciliar musste er das auch sein.
Trotzdem war er in Ungnade gefallen. Niemand wusste genau, was geschehen war, aber in einem war man sich einig: Er hatte versagt.

Ich öffnete den Mund und schloss ihn wieder. Mein Herz raste, weil ich fürchtete, dass dieses Jahr nicht so verlaufen würde, wie ich es mir vorgestellt hatte.”
― Laura Labas, Dornengift

“Als ich die Lider hob, blickte ich in seine dunklen bernsteinfarbenen Augen. Die Brauen waren zusammengezogen und seine Lippen aufeinandergepresst. Noch hielt er mich fest an den Schultern gepackt.
»Kein Wort darüber zu irgendjemandem, Ms Harlow.«”
― Laura Labas, Dornengift