Laura Taylor Namey > Quotes

“I've never considered any book, especially a novel or work of literature, something you should 'plow through.' The whole point of reading is savor ing the story, immersing your self in a whole new place. Maybe one that doesn't even exist.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“Thing is, when you put something back together it’s never exactly the same as it was before.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“Holding a real book is like holding something alive. There’s the grit of the pages between your fingers as you turn them. The edges get soft and worn. With a real book, you feel the weight of the story more.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“You're painting stars where I colored black holes”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“You love that boy like you love the kitchen. . .but you add yourself like too much sugar sometimes.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“So I wanted you to choose a future that’s first and foremost yours alone. Not to belong to me. I want you to belong with me.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“It was the small time between sunset and evening when the sky turned the color of crushed plums, bruised from the wounds of another day.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“She forgets that what she does in one small moment can affect tomorrow.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“I’ve made this deal with the universe. I’ve learned not to ask more of it than what I’m given, both good and bad.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“Sometimes you need to do more for yourself than just manage.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“Mi estrellita, if you shine too bright in his sky, you’re going to burn him out. Burn yourself out, también.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“Speed-reading just squashes the whole experience. You miss detail and pacing, and everything the author intended you to feel in the first place.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“I know I'll keep some of my mates forever." Her blue eyes meet mine- thoughtful the vibrant, just like her music. "But there are others I don't see much anymore, and I've realized that's okay." She smiles pensively. "Sometimes I put them into songs, and that's where I keep them. Plus, there's always room for new friends.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“Like the word “heart” can live as two forces at once - the one that beats and the one that feels - so can we.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, When We Were Them

“Recipe for Goodbye From the Kitchen of Lila Reyes Ingredients: One Cuban girl. One English boy. One English city. Preparation: Give Polly her kitchen back and share a genuine smile, from one legitimate baker to another. Ride through the countryside on a vintage Triumph Bonneville. Walk through Winchester, all through town and on the paths you ran. Drink vanilla black tea at Maxwell’s. Eat fish and chips and curry sauce at your friend’s pub. Sleep in fits and bits curled up together on St. Giles Hill. *Leave out future talk. Any form of the word tomorrow. Cooking temp: 200 degrees Celsius. You know the conversion by heart.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“I like strong words that mean something.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“Mami never went to college, but she majored in drama, anyway, with a minor in extra. She also majored in doing the opposite of what’s best for me.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“But after so many years, I knew what to do with hope. I held it an arm's length away.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment.” The moment we cheated worlds and lives and universes for.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“If you find undissolved sugar in the bottom of your teacup, someone has a crush on you.
-Superstition”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“Will you fly with me?”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“You're like all the places I want to fly to”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“The difference between him her and the other girls at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to her make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.” Sometimes you can’t see where make-believe ends and true starts. And sometimes you can, and you cry. —J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, and Peter Pan Mystery Scribbler”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“And I don't know what's worse, not getting to say goodbye, or saying goodbye to a little more every year. The tidal wave or the hourglass.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“As a result, toasting somebody with water is considered the same as wishing them and yourself bad luck, or even death.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

“You're part of a different dream.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things

“Why is it so hard to choose a direction? Part of it is that I've lost the ability to trust any of my own decisions. But there's another gap here, one I can't name. It's a Polaroid I shake and shake, but no answers materialize on the paper.”
― Laura Taylor Namey, A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak

“cinnamon bagel with cream cheese”
― Laura Taylor Namey, The Library of Lost Things