Top 100 Groff Quotes
#1. You." "Likewise." They shake hands, head back to the elevator. Groff
Michael Cunningham
#2. Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need.
Mark Batterson
#3. Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs of neurons, pulses like waves; it washes out what is unnecessary and leaves only what's important behind.
Lauren Groff
#4. Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot, we'll be together whatever the weather whether we like it or not
Lauren Groff
#5. So you win. No matter what, you win. It all works out for you in the end. Always. Someone or something's looking out for you. It's maddening.
Lauren Groff
#8. Dogs, being wordless, can only be mirrors of their humans. It's not their fault that their people are fatally flawed.
Lauren Groff
#9. She hated perfume. It was a cover for poor hygiene or for body shame. Clean people never aspired to the floral.
Lauren Groff
#10. She rode at the head of a shining line of black limos like the head raven in a convocation of black birds. Her husband had moved people, and, in so moving, had become their Lancelot Satterwhite, too. Something of him lived in them, was not hers, was now theirs.
Lauren Groff
#11. When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family
Lauren Groff
#12. Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you're seeing.
Lauren Groff
#13. Her husband's desire had always been more to chase and capture the gleam of the person inside the body than the body itself.
Lauren Groff
#14. A sculpture of marriage, marriage come alive. Lancelot
Lauren Groff
#15. Never. Never for me. I'd die first. Never's a liar.
Lauren Groff
#16. My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
Lauren Groff
#17. But what else was there to do but sing in the face of dismay,
Lauren Groff
#18. They could have lived on happiness alone, in their glamourous poverty, in their apartment.
Lauren Groff
#19. The senator was the kind of man who, having expended all his empathetic capital on marrying someone surprising, wanted to make sure no other people had the ability to make their own choices for themselves. He was anti-immigration, antiwoman, antigay, and that was just for starters. To
Lauren Groff
#20. This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever.
Lauren Groff
#21. My Templeton is to Cooperstown as a shadow is to the tree that spawned it; an outline that takes texture from the ground it falls on.
Lauren Groff
#22. He will miss this quiet full of noise: the nighthawks, the way the woods breathe, the things moving unsuspected through the dark. But he will take with him the canisters full of blasted images and have the pleasure of living them again. They are not nothing, the memories.
Lauren Groff
#25. Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
Jonathan Groff
#26. A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly.
Lauren Groff
#27. Felt like yesterday, all that bodily joy. Begun so young they didn't even know what they were doing and they wouldn't give it up, so when they were old enough, they married. Not the worst thing to build a marriage around, such juice. The first years had been delirious, the latter ones merely happy.
Lauren Groff
#28. He was enough of a lover of forms to understand the allure of such a strict life, how much internal wildness it could release.
Lauren Groff
#29. If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.
Jonathan Groff
#30. We think of stories a lot of the time as being horizontal texts, beginning to end. But I love the idea of having little vertical spikes in the story, too.
Lauren Groff
#31. WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself.
Lauren Groff
#32. Don't let the world define you. In the world of acting, and I think in any profession, really, people are really eager to put you in a box and categorize you as one particular thing.
Jonathan Groff
#33. Stigmata, she said as tonguelessly as possible, and laughed.
Lauren Groff
#34. As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
Lauren Groff
#35. Yes, there was one. Solitary, gleaming. A regret. It was that, all her life, she had said no. From the beginning, she had let so few people in.
Lauren Groff
#36. Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions
how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion.
Lauren Groff
#37. Boys belong to their mothers. Cord cut decades ago, but they'll always share the warm, dark swim.
Lauren Groff
#38. The Buddha laughed in silence from the mantelpiece.
Lauren Groff
#39. Hey. Look at me. You're being ridiculous, and not because you have woman parts.
Lauren Groff
#40. In twenty years, they'd have country houses and children with pretentious literary names and tennis lessons and ugly cars and liaisons with hot young interns. Hurricanes of entitlement, all swirl and noise and destruction, nothing at their centers.
Lauren Groff
#41. The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
Lauren Groff
#42. We will return to them. For now, he's the one we can't look away from. He is the shining one.]
Lauren Groff
#43. In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience
Jonathan Groff
#44. Choosing to give the gift of privacy over that of comfort.
Lauren Groff
#45. Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.
Lauren Groff
#47. I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.
Lauren Groff
#48. We're lonely down here," he said. "It's true. But we're not alone.
Lauren Groff
#49. It would never have ended that way. [True. It was not his time.]
Lauren Groff
#50. The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.
Lauren Groff
#51. Girl scrubs your toilets for twenty-three years, you begrudge her the life she had when you weren't around.
Lauren Groff
#52. Can we talk about the play? Other than the fact that I gave your personality to a murderer, what did you think?
Lauren Groff
#53. He'd been dazzled by the luck; she smiled, knowing that luck was not real. The
Lauren Groff
#54. Please. Marriage is made of lies. Kind ones, mostly. Omissions. If you give voice to the things you think every day about your spouse, you'd crush them to paste. She never lied. Just never said.
Lauren Groff
#55. He had read once that sleep does to the cerebellum what waves do to the ocean. Sleep sparks a series of pulses across the webs of neurons, pulses like waves; it washes out what is unnecessary and leaves only what's important behind. [It
Lauren Groff
#56. I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.
Lauren Groff
#57. In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience doing it, and in film and TV it's the director who gets to decide when to cut to you on a line, which take he uses.
Jonathan Groff
#58. We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.
Lauren Groff
#59. Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.
Lauren Groff
#60. I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.
Lauren Groff
#61. His heart ... responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not.
Lauren Groff
#62. I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country!
Jonathan Groff
#63. Itadakimasu, I take this nourishment in gratitude to all beings;
Lauren Groff
#64. Oh, Lotto, Mathilde thought with loving despair. Like most deadly attractive people, he had a hollow at the center of him. What people loved most about her husband was how mellifluous their own voices sounded when they echoed back. Mathilde
Lauren Groff
#65. The strong wind rises against the trees so they bend like girls washing their hair.
Lauren Groff
#66. What kind of shark is a shark that doesn't attack? A dolphin. Who needs dolphins? Dolphins are delicious. They make great snacks.
Lauren Groff
#67. there are untruths made of words and untruths made of silences,
Lauren Groff
#68. I love you beyond love.'
'Me too,' she said.
Lauren Groff
#69. Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.
Lauren Groff
#70. Did you?' the producer said. 'He's so clownish on the surface, all joke and dazzle. How in the world could you have seen it?'
'But I did. The moment I met him," she said. "A fucking supernova. Every day since.' She thought, but did not say, almost.
Lauren Groff
#71. Sex as rebellion against the way things should be. [Sounds familiar? It is. No story on earth more common.]
Lauren Groff
#72. He had nowhere to be; he had nothing to do; he was deeply depressed, fracking depressed, deep-shale shattered.
Lauren Groff
#73. Forgive her if she believed this would be the way it would go. She had been led to this conclusion by forces greater than she. Conquers all! All you need is! Is a many-splendored thing! Surrender to! Like
Lauren Groff
#75. He can only bear tragedy if it's abstract.
Lauren Groff
#76. Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.
Jonathan Groff
#77. In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.
Lauren Groff
#78. Already he loved the laugh she held in her,
Lauren Groff
#79. I write everything out in longhand in one fast go. And then I throw out the first few and start over again. By the end of the first draft, the whole thing's messy and disgusting and horrible, but you really understand the foundational stuff.
Lauren Groff
#80. She'd been accepted to the one school she'd applied to, early, for no other reason than that she'd loved the oddball essay questions in the application. How such small things can decide one's fate.
Lauren Groff
#81. Famous people consume us because we are bored.
Lauren Groff
#82. Kipling called it a very long conversation.
Lauren Groff
#83. Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating.
Lauren Groff
#84. She would do it again if she had to. To save the horror. To save herself. She would do it again and again and again and again and again and again and again, if she had to.
Lauren Groff
#85. The sun and wind pour into the sheets on the line. There are bodies in the billowing, forms created and lost in a breath.
Lauren Groff
#86. Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely; you do know someone entirely.
Lauren Groff
#87. But please, Mathilde knew lions. The male lolled beautifully, lazy in the sun. The female, less lovely by miles, was the one who brought back the kill.
Lauren Groff
#88. A QUESTION OF VISION. From the sun's seat, after all, humanity is an abstraction.
Lauren Groff
#89. You can't hate me, Mathilde, when I say no. This is my work.
Lauren Groff
#90. He'll flirt until you're a blob of goo and make you fall in love, then look all befuddled when you come on to him.
Lauren Groff
#92. The ground heaved, and then, because the air was bright and the birds were
Lauren Groff
#93. She had made so many calculations, but none involved her legs melting from under her with the instant desire to screw.
Lauren Groff
#94. Life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up.
Lauren Groff
#95. I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.
Lauren Groff
#96. When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
Lauren Groff
#98. Stubborn heart,' I said. 'Long memory. Bad mix.
Lauren Groff
#99. And what hurts him most is the gleam of peace he'd had: he would rather imagine his wife tortured in a secret cell than imagine that she chose to not love them anymore.
Lauren Groff
#100. Right now, right now, I am strange. It is strange. This life is strange. For now, only for now, I am happy.
Lauren Groff
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