Natalie Lloyd > Quotes

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”
― Natalie Lloyd

“The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that's one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person's mouth. When you know they'll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Home isn't just a house or a city or a place; home is what happens when you're brave enough to love people.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Stories aren't peaceful things. Stories don't care how shy you are. They don't care how insecure you are, either. Stories find their way out eventually. All you gotta do is turn 'em loose.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“It's so weird how life is so full of moving around--people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Forgetting people you love is impossible. It’d be like forgetting how to breathe.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Some people are born starry. Some people shine so bright you can't help but sit back and stare. Some people can't help but shine.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Sometimes you don't need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“I wondered if there was something sacred, something everlasting, about melted ice cream and summer days and good stories.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Here's what I've learned about miracles: Sometimes they turn up quick, and sometimes they take their sweet time getting to you. It's hard to tell either way because a miracle never looks exactly the way you think it should. Some miracles are big and flashy, and others are sweet and simple. Some miracles make you want to shout, and others make you want to sing.
And some miracles, the very best miracles of all, show up wearing cowboy boots.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“I was surrounded by words and stories and dust-speckled light. That's a pretty perfect way to be.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Mama glanced down at me. "Do you have a crush on him?"
"Not a crush." I shook my head. "More like an inflate. He makes me feel the opposite of crushed. He makes my heart feel like a balloon, like it's going to blow up and fly right out of my chest.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“Oliver's boardroom was actually a library. A good library. A library where books looked worn-out and well read and loved on. The library was two stories tall with a balcony wrapped around the top level. The big window on the top floor was propped half open. A rebel beam of sunlight pushed through the clouds, shining through the rain beads stuck to the screen and glass. And then that strange, golden rain light shone warm and pretty over Oliver's books. I wondered if the sun had missed the books, had waited as long as it possibly cold to shine over those spines again. I knew how that felt, to love a story so much you didn't just want to read it, you wanted to feel it.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“I made a big show of catching invisible words in my hands and putting them in my mouth and chewing on them. I knew my word-catching charade wasn't the best way to make a fast friend at Stoneberry Elementary School. But it was the only way I could think of to make my sister feel better. And I think if you're lucky, a sister is the same as a friend, but better. A sister is like a super-forever-infinity friend.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Believe is a powerful word to see and to say. But that morning, I felt it. And feeling it was the best of all. I knew something wonderful was about to happen to me. I didn't know what, or why, or how. But I believed.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“The human heart is a big thumping miracle, I decided. What else in the world could keep beating after being so broken?”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“So you keep catching them words, you hear? Pluck them out of the wind. String them together like the finest set of pearls. Line them up on paper. And if it hurts too much to say them, then you sing them, or whisper them, or write them into a story. But don't waste them. Your words matter more than you know.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“That's a wonderful word: maybe. I watched maybe stretch out, long and starry. The letter y looked as fiery as the tail of a comet; it looped around our shoulders, connecting us all together.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“...it's possible to have a happy ending, even if the ending isn't what you imagined.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“It occurred to me that there are at least three indisputable facts about best friends: 1. They wait for you, and 2. They slow down enough to walk beside you, and 3. They always know when you need hot chocolate.”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“If the right person tells a story, I guess it doesn't matter how many times you've heard it. Your heart still hears it brand new”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“Mama glanced up at the lonesome moon. The moon glowed down over her face like it was very happy to be noticed.
'I can't imagine anybody or anything lonelier than that midnight moon,' said Mama. 'That'd be awful - sitting up against ten thousand stars without arms to reach out and hold a single one.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic

“Just when you think you don't have it in you to bloom anymore, you do.”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“So this is what I've decided: In the eyes of many people, I may never live an extraordinary life. But I will love in extraordinary ways. And I hope I choose to always see the best in people" -Emma”
― Natalie Lloyd, The Key to Extraordinary

“I didn't say another word to Mama that night, but I could feel something good even then: the YES in my heart, the swirling-around in my belly, the prickly tingling all the way from the freckle on my finger to the tip of my pinky toe. That much wonderful could only mean one thing:
There was still magic in Midnight Gulch.”
― Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic