Laurie Frankel Quotes

#1. Just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.

Laurie Frankel

#2. Regardless of their reciprocity styles, people love to be asked for advice.

Adam M. Grant

#3. For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love.

Laurie Frankel

#4. There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.

Laurie Frankel

#5. The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#6. Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

Rachel Hunter

#7. Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can't make better.

Laurie Frankel

#8. If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Laurie Frankel

#9. You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

Laurie Frankel

#10. Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

Laurie Frankel

#11. You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are.

Laurie Frankel

#12. Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually.

Sean Bean

#13. A man dies as often as he loses his friends.

Francis Bacon

#14. There was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a premonition. Not as the moment to grab her hand and turn and run.

Laurie Frankel

#15. I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to travel it, but they all suck and they all involve letting go.

Laurie Frankel

#16. No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Tiffany Madison

#17. Beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with ...

Amitav Ghosh

#18. Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation,

Michael Morpurgo

#19. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

Jamie Zawinski

#20. She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#21. This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn't silver lining; it was a whole silver sky.

Laurie Frankel

#22. Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.

Laurie Frankel

#23. Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.

Oprah Winfrey

#24. The more I thought about it, the more I worried I wouldn't be good enough.

Karina Halle

#25. Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Helen Fisher

#26. Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.

Laurie Frankel