Laura Pohl > Quotes

“yuki laughed, because it was the natural response. everyone assumed it was easier, that she wouldn't have to navigate the difficulties of love. even her friends thought that, but it only came back to bite her in the end. it's not like you understand what it's like to love someone, do you? because in the end, they would have someone, they would all have their counterparts, and yuki was going to be alone.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“it's okay to be French in like, fiction, but not in real life.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Step aside. While you were busy being heterosexual, I studied the art of the blade." - Rory”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“I’ve learned that there’s a difference between being alone and being lonely.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“Books rarely disappointed, even when they had terrible endings, because she could just move on from it and find another she liked. Books had been safe.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Earth is empty. And so am I.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“I’ve flown before and I’ll fly again. I’ll rise.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“It was easier to be a hurtful, sharp thing, poking others so that she didn't have to think about what it was doing to herself.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Once you speak, you can’t take it back,”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Her loss was pure, untainted by knowing and loving Ariane”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“My instinct is not to speak, but I’m tired of silence. I’m tired of not knowing how to bridge the gaps between me and the others.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“as long as they’re on Earth, the sky will never belong to me like it once did. It’ll never be mine again.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“They are an allegory of what happens in real life. Girls get beaten up and die. It's a warning, to live chastely. That if you're a good girl, you get to live" - Nani”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“It's not like you understand what it's like to love someone, do you?”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“We are going to save them all.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“And then the door blasts open, and everyone turns to look as the last human girl on Earth steps through it.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“I don’t belong to the sky anymore. Hope is the thing that kills me in the end. Because it doesn’t take my body, but it takes my soul.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“Maybe the aliens have taken Him, too.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“That’s reassuring,” Brooklyn mutters. “Nuclear weapons in the hands of teenagers.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“a single being is grieving for a lost friend. For a girl who sacrificed herself and her entire species so she could save everyone else. So she could save the entire universe.”
― Laura Pohl, The Last 8

“Now you're just fooling yourself. No one is better because they're not angry, because they don't hurt people. It's just what you need to do to cope. You do whatever it takes. Whatever you have to do to survive." - Penelope”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“sometimes people are evil or French and can't be redeemed”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Rory breathed deep, settled herself. She knew her own pain. She knew her body. She knew how it worked, even when she felt like it was betraying her, trying to make her weaker. Rory wasn’t weak because of her pain, because of what her body was going through. She had survived it. Each sleepless night, each morning where she got up and she thought she wouldn’t manage to walk, each day where she thought she’d reached the limit. She always surpassed the limit. Even when her body tried betraying her, Rory was still strong. She was strong in spite of it, maybe because of it, because she was going to survive it. This body was hers.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“...most important in the story: the path, the darkness that they had been through. Happily ever after never covered what came after that, how half the heroes could be scarred for the rest of their lives. It was falsehood sold to keep little girls dreaming about something that didn't exist.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“Make it true. You deserve that. That’s the girl I want to know. And if other people can’t love you for what you are, then they don’t deserve you at all - Penelope, The Grimrose Girls”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“People may love you, but it’s not real love if they don’t know who you are. - Penelope, The Grimrose Girls”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“I don't want to point fingers, but perhaps the solution for the "we need more men" problem would be not to throw all available men through the air lock once they complain there's no caf.”
― Laura Pohl, From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi

“Her love life—if she could call it that—was off-limits, even for herself. Her heart was locked behind silver gates and protected by a forest of thorns and possibly a dragon.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“There were muscles under her shirt, her dark brown skin showing, and Rory had caught herself admiring them more than once. Not that she would admit it. Rory Derosiers was very much into not admitting anything.”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls

“She’d taken the train, almost got off in the wrong country—”
― Laura Pohl, The Grimrose Girls