Top 100 Lauren Myracle Quotes
#1. Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.
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#2. Kids need to see their world reflected back to them.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.
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#8. I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
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#11. But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.
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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. All I'm saying is that if you love someone, you should be willing to show it.
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#15. 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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#16. It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
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#17. Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be ... Christmas is a state of mind.
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#25. There's something strange about this big pink bunny ...
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#26. 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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#27. I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.
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#28. Three hot chicks for three hot chicks."
"THEY'RE NOT CHICKS! THEY'RE DUCKS!
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#29. The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press.
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#30. If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.
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#31. 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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#32. This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.
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#33. I'm sorry, he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
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#36. Yes,Addie,you're my girl.You'll be my girl forever.
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#37. 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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#38. It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way.
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#39. Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
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#40. Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn't made of candy.
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#41. 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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#42. I felt warm and happy,because the message in his eyes was,YOU'RE MINE AND I'M YOURS.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#46. And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.
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#48. Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
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#59. Damn you. WHY do you plant these things in my head?
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#60. 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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#61. Except I do care about being pretty. Der. I don't think there's a single person in the world who doesn't care about being pretty. Any female, at any rate.
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#63. 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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#65. Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
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#66. 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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#67. I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. She informed me that in the future, I was not to throw out Starbucks customers just for being heartless bitches.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. Charlie ... I can't go out with you if I'm in love with someone else. Even if he no longer wants me.
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#79. You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them books what make you talk funny.
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#80. You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.
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#81. Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not.
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#82. 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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#83. I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.
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#84. I heard him tell our parents, "She said no," and my melancholy deepened. Mom and Dad and Chris were downstairs together, merrily strapping on nunchucks and punching each other in the face, while here I was, gloomy and alone.
And whose fault is that? I asked myself.
Oh, shut up., I replied.
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#85. 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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#86. We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.
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#87. When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.
-Sheriff Andy Taylor
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#88. Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it.
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#89. My tears were hot and salty, and I imagine them melting my heart.
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#90. 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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#91. He slung both arms around the back of his chair, and it reminded me how different girls and guys were. Girls kept their bodies tucked in tight, while boys took up every inch of room they could.
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#92. You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle!
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#93. 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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#94. It's your birthright to be snarky. Own it. Live it. Rejoice in it.
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#95. 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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#96. I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world.
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#97. There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice.
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#98. Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?
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#99. Prancing around with marshmallowss on your nipples does *not* constitute living your life fully!
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#100. He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.
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