Top 67 Laura Ruby Quotes
#1. The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.
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#2. She clenched the blanket in her fist, and sighed, and breathed his name, and if she hasn't said it out load, he wouldn't have known what to call himself, because everything was her.
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#3. He grew out his hair," June says. "He looks amazing."
"He looks like a giant caramel with some carpet lint stuck to the top of it.
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#4. All five of them were short and bowlegged, making them look like a chorus line of wishbones.
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#5. Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.
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#6. Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves.
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#7. Is your work finished or is it just due?
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#8. There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.
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#9. The principal: You're a smart girl, so I'm going to be blunt. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped acting so weird.
Me: Who says I'm not happy?
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#11. Our moon is the same moon, our sun is the same sun, and the stars will sparkle for us no matter who or where or what erare
not sluts, not players, just people.
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#12. Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn't afraid of anything.
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#13. THE SUN TOUCHED HER FACE LIKE THE SOFTEST CARESS.
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#14. You are spiky spring
Humming Summer, wings that
beat
Back ghosts of winter.
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#15. Everyone loves a villain. Or maybe not a villain, exactly, but someone you can point out and say, I might be weird, but I'm not weird like her.
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#16. You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.
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#17. When you think about it, building this fence is crazy. Animals will keep climbing over it, or under it, or chewing their way through it. All kinds of animals. Maybe even some we didn't know existed.
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#18. The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.
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#19. It was delicious, his horror. She wanted to see it up close. She wanted to eat it.
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#20. He preferred her barefoot, he said. She had such lovely feet. Roza didn't agree. What was lovely about feet that could not take you anywhere? What was lovely about feet that could not run?
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#21. Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.
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#22. What?"
Finn remembered sitting at the kitchen table with Sean, both of them trying to say the world "table" in Polish. Roza had said, "You have tongue like cow!" and laughed and laughed.
"What?" Sean said again.
He had tongue like cow, he had mind like cow. Dull, wordless.
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#23. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.
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#24. In the soil too fat and happy, the praying mantises too pious and too plentiful,
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#25. Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. "
"How would you know?
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#26. You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.
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#27. I'd rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.
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#28. We can all look up and say,. okay, there's the South Star,. there's the Big Dogpile, there's the Little Dipshit. Twinkle, twinkle.
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#29. Love the people who love you back.
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#30. It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.
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#31. And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.
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#32. It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.
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#33. Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.
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#34. I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.
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#35. There will be boys who tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you -Babcia
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#36. Sean asked her if she was an Olympic weight lifter.
"No," she said. "I am Polish.
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#37. Least, that's what it looked like. A roped-off room in a castle somewhere, a room made entirely of blocks of stone, icy and cold, even though a fire burned low in the hearth. A room where doomed queens went to die.
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#38. He was tired of everyone believing they knew everything there was to know about him, as if a person never grew, a person never changed, a person was born a weird and dreamy little kid with too-red lips and stayed that way forever just to keep things simple for everyone else.
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#39. She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.
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#40. She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.
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#42. I didn't care if it was magic. I just cared that I was riding with you.
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#43. But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?
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#44. She got icing all over her face. I think that's why I like her. For the good stuff, she's willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn't want a girl like that?
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#45. Trying to get a handle on what he thought, what he felt, what he thought about what he felt and vice versa, was like trying to open a locked door by ramming it with his head.
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#46. God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi.
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#47. What have you got against people?"
Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.
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#48. I'd be okay with that kind of trouble, Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.
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#49. I like to rub Twinkies under my arms.
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#50. Scarecrows weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn
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#51. You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.
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#52. People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.' A lot of times nice is boring. But that's not what I mean. Roza was nice and not boring at all.
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#53. Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.
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#54. I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.
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#55. She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.
-Seven Chillman, classmate
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#56. The way you learn to ride is by riding.
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#57. Hoping so hard that there was one boy out there who wanted you as much as you wanted him, because you wouldn't know what you would do with yourself if this were not true.
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#58. Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.
And then she punched him in the nuts.
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#59. What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.
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#60. Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?
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#61. I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.
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#62. I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn't always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.
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#63. He clears his throat. 'Do you want to go to a movie or something?' The wings stop flapping. 'I can't. I'm sort of under house arrest.'
'Till when?'
'Till pigs fly and hell freezes over.'
'Soon, then.'
'Any minute.
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#64. Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.
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#65. And when your brother cries for her, I will feed on his tears.
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#66. Do you have a girl? Where's your girl? Where's your girl?" "She's her own girl,
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#67. The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does. - ANONYMOUS
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