Top 87 Laura Miller Quotes
#1. The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [ ... ] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.
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#2. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.
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#3. Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics Commission, we are going to need your strong support to get an even tougher Ethics Code passed this year.
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#4. When you really love someone, you don't let them go - mostly, because you can't. Nature won't allow it. But also, because you just don't.
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#5. Say: If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.
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#6. Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
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#7. But despite the challenges, I love being your Mayor.
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#8. Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
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#9. More than every once in awhile,
More than most dreams,
More than just my heart,
More than anything,
More than you know,
And more than I can say,
I've loved you more
Every passing day
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#10. I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am - a million times a million and to the moon and back.
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#11. Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!
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#12. But there is so much more to do for the city we love ... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
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#13. Girls are treasures, son." He points the key at me while eyeing me from over the top of his glasses. "And when one gives you somethin', it's like she's givin' you a piece of her treasure.
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#14. Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods ... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
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#15. I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I've learned you don't so easily get it back.
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#16. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect.
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#17. Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.
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#18. The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with ...
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#19. I just want her to know that she's still beautiful, after all these years, and that I'm here - always,
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#20. She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory
the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.
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#21. Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
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#22. Sometimes the hearts we steal are not the hearts we were ever meant to keep.
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#23. Remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
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#24. Because I see
A rainstorm in June
Just before the sun
The black of night
Just before the stars
And, girl, I see your ghost
Just before our dawn
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#25. From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares ... yes ... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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#26. We have but one dance to a lifetime of songs.
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#27. I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults - librarians, friends' parents - suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.
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#29. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds
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#30. I've come to learn two truths about love. One: The fall is the easy part. Two: It's best not to fall.
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#31. Brooke was always my summer. She'll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.
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#32. We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it - passion - is one of those things that you have an endless amount of - like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.
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#33. I'll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.
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#34. We get used to pretty ... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle.
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#35. At times, the road will be hard, the days will be long, and the journey you've traveled won't feel like a song. But know that I'll always love you, and with love, all is certain.
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#36. I have to know if you believe in second chances - because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.
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#37. I'll find my way back to you, Brooke Sommerfield. As sure as the sun is gonna rise in the mornin', I'll find you, I whisper into the wind. - River
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#38. In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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#39. I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.
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#40. The levee had always been my beach, the world beyond it, my ocean. That's as close as it got here, anyway. No waves, no dolphins, no white sand, no sea gulls. If you were lucky enough, though, every once in a while you did get to see a crane, or a beaver.
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#41. The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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#42. In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money ... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
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#43. I believe that there is a perfect someone for everyone, and I know that you still believe that too. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect, he added.
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#44. Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
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#45. It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services ... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?
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#46. People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.
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#47. Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
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#48. Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
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#49. Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
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#50. The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
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#51. A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.
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#52. The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives ... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.
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#54. Maybe the story of our life is what we make of it. I mean, we're dealt the rain and the sun, but maybe it's up to us to push away the clouds in order to see the rainbow.
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#55. He was always my moon, my stars, my world.
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#56. Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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#57. I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.
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#58. For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.
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#59. Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.
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#61. And I didn't even try to fight the smile returning to my face, as I realized in that moment that I would eat a million pepperoni pizzas for that girl. And she knew. Damn it.
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#62. Deep down, we're all some kind of crazy, Ada.
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#63. But no, Sir, to answer your question. I'm taken, and I have been since I was sixteen, Will confessed
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#64. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
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#65. She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.
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#66. There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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#67. If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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#69. A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.
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#70. Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you're desperate for.
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#71. The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
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#72. Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly
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#73. Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
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#74. What literature could accomplish by way of moral education was less instruction than an expansion of our capacity for empathy: it admits us to experiences other than our own.
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#75. And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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#76. Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.
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#77. Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
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#78. There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
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#79. Don't count him out, Julia. He hasn't given up on you.
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#80. Her smile is like a summer storm - something in between calm and dangerous.
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#81. But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it's been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded - that's how I feel about her. She wasn't there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.
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#82. Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.
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#83. Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.
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#84. These days, though, he was as unpredictable as an alley cat. One minute, he's purring on
your lap. The next, he's scowling at you from the window sill, and you're left wondering if he's plotting your demise over there, just waiting for you to fall asleep. That's Will.
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#85. Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date - one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.
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#86. The past isn't always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.
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#87. See, I'm in love with the person you can never outrun. I'm in love with you.
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