Top 100 Lauren Myracle Quotes
#1. My tears were hot and salty, and I imagine them melting my heart.
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#2. In my bedroom, I squeezed shut my eyes, because it was too hard, that memory. Too hard, too painful, too much like losing a slice of myself, which, in fact, I had.
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#3. I've written a lot of novels for teens and tweens ... but I'd never really tackled the North Carolina side of me. And it's so strong and so important, and yet I hadn't acknowledged it. And so one of the things I wanted to do in "Shine" is take that on.
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#4. But if I didn't know Kate, then maybe I didn't know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.
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#6. And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over."
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#7. But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new
that's my point.
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#8. He leaned in and kissed her, because now that he knew he could, he planned on kissing her every chance he got.
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#9. I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
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#10. She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...
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#11. You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook - I get so many of those emails that talk about hard times that kids have gone through, how books have helped them, but also happy times.
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#12. Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
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#13. My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would.
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#14. Damn you. WHY do you plant these things in my head?
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#15. Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
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#16. But then his lips quirked up,and amusement flickered in his eyes.Something else,too - something that made my heart beat faster.
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#17. Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?"
She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot."
"Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled.
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#18. You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so ... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger.
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#19. It wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt.
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#20. It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.
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#21. Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!
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#22. Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?
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#23. We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.
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#24. It's your birthright to be snarky. Own it. Live it. Rejoice in it.
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#25. One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.
Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.
Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.
-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life
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#26. So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in.
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#27. Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.
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#28. Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up.
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#29. Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.
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#30. Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
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#31. The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.
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#32. Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
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#33. There's something strange about this big pink bunny ...
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#34. Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be ... Christmas is a state of mind.
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#35. Hi, puppy."
she's not a puppy. She's a girl," Nancy's mother says.
Nancy pats me and says, "Good puppy. Nice puppy." When he mother bends down to pull her away, she wraps both arms around my legs and wails. "No! My puppy!
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#36. Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.
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#37. Sometimes, with Cinnamon, it was like she fell into this "impress the guy" mode and forgot the primary rule of friendship, which was to make your bud look good in front of her boy. Not stupid.
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#38. Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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#39. Maybe being known by someone, really being known by someone, wasn't a party trick like ESP. Maybe it was about opening your heart to that person, consciously and on purpose.
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#40. And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. - Malvina Reynolds
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#41. Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
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#42. It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
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#43. Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!
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#44. Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.
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#45. I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.
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#46. I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.
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#47. But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.
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#49. The best thing you can do is find someone who loves you when you're pretty, when you're ugly, when you're mad, when you're happy. Someone who, no matter what, is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass.
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#50. Because it's good for nothing," I said. keeping my eyes on Tommy. "Because one worthless piece of shit deserves another.
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#51. You're allowed to have thoughts, she reminded herself. Just because others might scoff, that doesn't mean you won't anymore.
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#52. I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants.
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#53. Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.
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#54. All I'm saying is that if you love someone, you should be willing to show it.
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#55. I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.
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#56. God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, always be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.
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#57. Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.
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#60. And my brain put them together in that way brains sometimes do: pairing the ideas that shouldn't be paired, yet nonetheless were.
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#61. I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."
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#62. I felt warm and happy,because the message in his eyes was,YOU'RE MINE AND I'M YOURS.
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#63. I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.
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#64. Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn't made of candy.
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#65. All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.
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#66. The world was out there waiting to be explored - and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?
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#67. Yes,Addie,you're my girl.You'll be my girl forever.
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#70. Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.
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#71. If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
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#72. The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press.
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#73. Three hot chicks for three hot chicks."
"THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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#74. I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.
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#75. If you love someone, you should be willing to show it. This is our one shot at life.
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#76. Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.
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#77. Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.
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#79. So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?
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#80. I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first.
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#81. I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
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#82. Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt.
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#83. He told me about his slow realization that when one person in a family was sick, the whole family was sick. In Jason's case, the sick person was his father, who was nice enough when he was sober, but mean as a snake when he was drunk.
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#84. I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
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#85. I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.
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#86. Who would want to be poked by some dumb girl with a stick?
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#87. Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good.
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#88. Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood.
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#89. Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!"
Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored ... maybe I'm lonely?
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#90. I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up.
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#91. When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.
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#92. I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.
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#93. Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.
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#94. Well, I guess I do too," Ava admitted. "I just . . . I don't think it's fair. To other people. To get sad all the time, you know?" Natasha
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#95. I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I'm yours.
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#96. And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye.
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#97. If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.
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#98. God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
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#100. Mother Superior jump the gun ...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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