Lara Avery > Quotes

“I think people fake that they're having fun a lot of the time in photos, because they want people to think they're having fun. Well, that's not life, is it?”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“We have to get used to the idea that no one cares as much as us, because guess what, they don’t. Succeed, fail, whatever, no one is going to give you a pat on the back for spending all hours of the day studying, or researching, or giving up everything to write. So we’ve got to just do it for ourselves.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“Life is not just a series of triumphs.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I don't know, Mom. Now that I'm about to graduate, I plan on being more spontaneous."
Mom opened her eyes and burst out laughing.
I said, "Got spontaneity on the calendar for next Tuesday.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“There is no secret language, Future Sam, that you have to speak in order to talk to someone you like. You just talk to them. Bonus”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I’ve lived with you right now and those right nows are everywhere, every time, in my house, on the mountain. I love you. Home is where love is. You’re my home.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“It’s like, take my body, fine, I wasn’t really using it anyway. I’ve got this enormous butt on ostrich legs, the hair of a “before” picture, and weird milky brown eyes like a Frappuccino. But not my brain. My true connection to the world.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I picked up a book called Anagrams and started to read. I felt someone's eyes on me and looked up. Stuart. I held up the book like someone would hold up a glass. Cheers. Parties, right? Ha-ha. It's that I don't know what to do or say it's just that I've been to so many parties that I'm tired of them and would rather read this book ha-ha so don't worry about me I'll just be here.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“Not much is likely. Anything is possible.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“We tried emotions in middle school and we didn't care for them, but they have snuck back into our life.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I vaguely remember this quote from one of my favorite theorists, Noam Chomsky - something about optimism as a strategy rather than just a feeling. If you don't believe the future is going to be better, then you won't take action to make it better.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“hey sammie
you have just gone. my favourite memory is this whole book because it is you. thank you for recording your life. it was supposed to be longer. I guess you should know that before you passed, at sunrise, you asked to be moved to the window so you could see your side of the mountain. you said, "so I can see home".
i love you
Cooper”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“And it was not fun to be a person today.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I wasn’t always a debater, but if I hadn’t become one four years ago, no joke, I would probably be addicted to weed. Or erotic fan fiction. Or something like that. Let”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“The look on his face said he knew exactly what I meant, and the pleasure of being recognized was like fingers tracing my back.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“They included me, and I spoke up when I could, but mostly I listened. "What do you think Sammie?" Stewart would ask. And eventually I just had to tell them that most of the time, I didn't know. "I'm sort of a sponge," I said, and could feel my mouth get dry. "I have a few strong opinions, but they might change. I just want to find out everything I can.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“Not going to keep refreshing and checking for a reply. I have plenty of other things to do. I wait for no man. OH WAIT LOOK.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I picked up a book called Anagrams and started to read. I felt someone's eyes on me and looked up. Stuart. I held up the book like someone would hold up a glass. Cheers. Parities, right? Ha-ha. It's that I don't know what to do or say it's just that I've been to so many parties that I'm tired of them and would rather read this book ha-ha so don't worry about me I'll just be here.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“I hated being called brave more than anything. Brave implied that I had a choice in all of this. As if I had an option whether to lose my best friend or not, and death was the one I'd chosen.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“But I know that if you live your life for other people, in the end there will be nothing left of you.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“I hated it, too. Him not here. I would have traded anything of mine for one more hour, one more stuffy kiss on the cheek.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“After a minute, I scooted toward the space where Gabe had slept for ten years. Sometimes I imagined it still warm, as if he'd just gotten up to go to the bathroom.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“love should connect you to people, not chain you to them.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“... and he would look at me like I was the one slowly killing him instead of the one who was trying to save his life.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“The reality was hard to swallow every day, and yet here I was, doing it. It wasn't brave, it just was.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances