Laura Jarratt > Quotes

“They're just scars. They're not you.”
― Laura Jarratt

“I want to ask you something.'
'The answer's yes.'
'What? You don't know the question yet.'
'Yes, I do. It's am I fantastic in bed.”
― Laura Jarratt, Skin Deep

“Scars are beautiful too, you know. They're a badge we wear
for the world to show we've lived."...
"And that we've survived.
So they have a beauty all of their own.”
― Laura Jarratt, Skin Deep

“Jenna - “Dad's going to go mental though.”
Ryan - Suppose I'll be skewered with the garden fork when he finds out.”
“Probably. Might deflate your ego so it could be a good thing.”
“You're supposed to say, 'No, I'll protect you' and stuff like that.”
― Laura Jarratt, Skin Deep

“Love the people who saw you when you were invisible to everyone else.”
― Laura Jarratt, Louder Than Words

“Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.”
― Laura Jarratt, Louder Than Words

“It feels like every cell in your skin is more alive. It's not just in your skin, either, but deeper, through the tissues, into your very bones.”
― Laura Jarratt, By Any Other Name

“I wanted to hurl the mirror across the room. Scream. Break everything in sight. Rip the curtains down. Smash the window. Let the animal thing out. But good girls don’t do that, don’t make a fuss, don’t upset parents. And I was a good girl so I curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead. ~Jenna”
― Laura Jarratt

“Can i see something you've written?
Can you see my soul you mean? That was like asking me to cut my self open and lay everything inside me bare.”
― Laura Jarratt, Louder Than Words

“We all think we're useless. We all break down and we all realise how weak we are in the face of the magnitude of looking after a little person whose whole life and spirit is so dependent on us.”
― Laura Jarratt, Disappeared

“just as the skin heals itself enough to go on, weakened and damaged but functional, so, I am learning, can the heart.”
― Laura Jarratt, Mother

“You're right - women shouldn't compete over their pain. It's enough that we hurt.”
― Laura Jarratt, Disappeared

“They grow up, our babies, and that is such a bittersweet spike in a mother’s heart.”
― Laura Jarratt, Mother