Dear Laura Quotes

“​Sometimes, all you could do was give in. Sometimes, you just had to let the night win. Lose the battle, win the war,”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“Pain is just an obstacle, she told herself eventually, through gritted teeth.  And obstacles are simply there to be overcome.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“Because once a secret has grown old, and burrowed itself like a tick under the skin, it is harder to dig out than she could fathom.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“Everything can change. A life can alter beyond recognition in the time it takes to simply let go of someone’s hand.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“And nobody much questioned her about it, because they knew she wouldn’t tell them anyway. She was mystery wrapped in silence, and sometimes, unwrapping the secret just wasn’t worth the struggle.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“...and wondered why it was that she couldn’t cry, like normal people. Had she in fact died, years ago? Was she now just a ghost, a memory of a girl in pain, drifting, endlessly drifting, towards something indistinct?”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“She would do whatever the mystery man wanted, if it meant that she could find answers to it all. She was not too young to understand what closure meant. She was not too young to feel the agony of not-knowing.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“They worked hard to maintain the life they’d built around themselves, forgetting, in the process, what that life was really supposed to be about.”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“once a secret has grown old, and burrowed itself like a tick under the skin, it is harder to dig out”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura

“There was so much pain.  Pain is just an obstacle, she told herself”
― Gemma Amor, Dear Laura