Butterfly Weeds Quotes

#1. When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.
Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

Laura Miller

#2. I'll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

Laura Miller

#3. See, I'm in love with the person you can never outrun. I'm in love with you.

Laura Miller

#4. People who don't like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it's theoretically necessary

Patrick Lencioni

#5. 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.

Laura Miller

#6. Don't count him out, Julia. He hasn't given up on you.

Laura Miller

#7. Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

Laura Miller

#8. 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.

Laura Miller

#9. I loved you too much to lose you twice.

Laura Miller

#10. She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It's the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Laura Miller

#11. Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

G. M. Trevelyan

#12. I'll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.

Laura Miller

#13. You're much too beautiful for tears.

Laura Miller

#14. 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.

Laura Miller

#15. The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

Laura Miller

#16. Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

Laura Miller

#17. I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa

Peter Mutanda

#19. She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with.

E.J. Fisch

#20. 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

Laura Miller

#21. 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.

Laura Miller

#22. These fragments I have shored against my ruins

T. S. Eliot

#23. A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

Simon Sinek

#24. There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn't all that perfect.

Laura Miller

#25. Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

Jessie J.

#26. 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.

Laura Miller

#27. 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

Laura Miller

#28. So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.

Chad Harbach

#29. I see no greatness in my self ... I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

Neal Cassady

#30. Of all the butterflies that chose to stay,
I'm in love with the one that got away.

Laura Miller

#31. Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Josh Billings