Top 67 Laure Quotes
#1. It is nothing, Marie-Laure. Come now." Marie-Laure backs out. Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. "I can sit with him for a bit, Madame. Maybe we could read some more of our
Anthony Doerr
#2. Marie-Laure says, I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.
Anthony Doerr
#3. A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Etienne
Anthony Doerr
#4. If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.
Anthony Doerr
#5. Marie-Laure smiles, and he laughs a pure, contagious laugh, one she will try to remember all her life, father and daughter turning in circles on the sidewalk in front of their apartment house, laughing together while snow sifts through the branches above.
Anthony Doerr
#6. Marie-Laure drops her cane; she begins to cry. Her father lifts her, holds her to his narrow chest. "it's so big," she whispers. "You can do this, Marie." She cannot.
Anthony Doerr
#7. The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. Streets sucked empty one by one.
Anthony Doerr
#8. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.
Anthony Doerr
#9. Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by
Anthony Doerr
#10. Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.
Anthony Doerr
#11. A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind.
Anthony Doerr
#12. How about peaches, dear? murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she's eating wedges of wet sunlight.
Anthony Doerr
#13. Marie-Laure hears Madame Manec: You must never stop believing.
Anthony Doerr
#14. He waits until dark. Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and the transmitter in the attic. His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight . . .
Anthony Doerr
#15. Marie-Laure is glad to hear a smile enter his voice. But beneath it she can sense his thoughts fluttering like trapped birds.
Anthony Doerr
#16. Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile
Antoine Laurain
#17. German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.
Anthony Doerr
#19. The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient.
Anthony Doerr
#20. They clomp together through the narrow streets, Marie-Laure's hand on the back of Madame's apron, following the odors of her stews and cakes; in such moments Madame seems like a great moving wall of rosebushes, thorny and fragrant and crackling with bees. Still-warm
Anthony Doerr
#21. Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
Laure Manaudou
#22. You're a warrior. Maybe we all lean on you a little too much, because we know you can take it. We shouldn't do that.
Estelle Laure
#23. I no longer wonder whether something like me should be allowed to exist. I do exist.
Laure Eve
#24. All feeling has an equivalent in action or is useless"
"Did you say that?"
Of course not," she says. "Virginia Woolf
Estelle Laure
#25. Memories slip, you know, if you don't take the time to find a way to make them stay.
Estelle Laure
#26. In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.
Laure Manaudou
#28. my life will never be where you think you can find it--too bad for me
Laure
#29. Just because the crack doesn't show doesn't mean it's not there.
Estelle Laure
#30. I'm not good for a lot of things but I'm a good listener and I know what it means to feel.
Laure Lacornette
#31. Avoid contact with all people in whom there is no possible resonance with what touches you most deeply and toward whom you have obligations of "kindness," of politeness.
Laure
#33. Explain to me what the point of living is if you aren't willing to fight for the truths in your heart, to risk getting hurt.
Estelle Laure
#34. We have little importance. Once we've assimilated that, life can have a meaning.
Laure Lacornette
#35. Denial is for losers. Face your crap and move on. Otherwise you'll get old and depressed and turn into a scary pod person whose most pressing issue in life is when they get to trade in the can of Dr Pepper for the can of Bud.
Estelle Laure
#36. Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.
Laure Manaudou
#37. Maybe we're all breakable. It's just a question of what breaks us.
Estelle Laure
#38. Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart.
Francesco Petrarca
#41. People like us were born to change the world. It's filled with shit. It's filled with people who did the things they did to you. It's filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don't you feel it too?
Laure Eve
#42. If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.
Anne-Laure Bondoux
#43. To be forced to endure something because you have no money to counter it ; this fact is totally unfair and I can't, personally, tolerate it.
Laure Lacornette
#45. And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.
Anthony Doerr
#47. I have no more goals, all I'm gonna do is deal with the days Nature will give me along. I have lost too much strength on futile things until then !
Laure Lacornette
#48. If only stupid people could have the mere intelligence to shut up while discussing serious matter, the world would go along so much better !
Laure Lacornette
#49. I don't think someone's worth can be measured by the number of cities he visited, the number of countries he traveled to or the number of seas and oceans he crossed.
One can be a traveler even by simply going to the end of the street.
Laure Lacornette
#50. The world out there is nothing more than a load of places with people in 'em. And the people out there are neither more interesting, nor better, nor lower, than us here in Angle Tar.
It's humans, Rue. We're the same wherever you go, no matter what we surround ourselves with.
Laure Eve
#51. I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.
Laure Eve
#52. I sometimes go months without remembering you.
Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
#53. Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.
Estelle Laure
#55. She ran from the shame, slammed his door behind her and ran, away from the pain and the moment when he had been so close to her mouth he could have kissed her, the thought that made her feel like her heart would burst.
Laure Eve
#56. Recognition is a fire ; you can burn or find warmth and comfort by it.
Laure Lacornette
#57. By dint of waiting, he hoped his heart would wear out and stop beating. What other way was there to stop loving someone?
Anne-Laure Bondoux
#58. There have been some hard times, people around me supported me.
Laure Manaudou
#60. The more we try to stop others from falling, the more we hurt ourselves.
Laure Lacornette
#61. But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?"
"I hope so. I hope we are.
Anthony Doerr
#63. We need space to be productive, we need places to go to be free.
Laure Lacornette
#66. Everyone said they were witches.
I desperately wanted to believe it.
Laure Eve
#67. I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.
Laure Eve
