Laura Ruby > Quotes

“People look, they don't see.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“But wasn't that love? Seeing what no one else could?”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Our moon is the same moon, our sun is the same sun, and the stars will sparkle for us no matter who or where or what erare-- not sluts, not players, just people.”
― Laura Ruby, Good Girls

“What have you got against people?"
Finn hated crowds. Thousands of people bumping and churning. "Too many opinions.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Because we don't have your typical gaps around here. Not gaps made of rocks or mountains. We have gaps in the world. In the space of things. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that they're there. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. Or maybe you don't want to find your way out.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Love the people who love you back.”
― Laura Ruby, Bad Apple

“Thinking that you can't protect the ones you love, you have to hope they're smart enough to save themselves.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. He picked himself a wife and bought her. She was bagged up and put in a cart. He took her home. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids.
Petey read this book over and over. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. She kept waiting for justice. But, of course, the story never changed. She never got justice. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“He was tired of everyone believing they knew everything there was to know about him, as if a person never grew, a person never changed, a person was born a weird and dreamy little kid with too-red lips and stayed that way forever just to keep things simple for everyone else.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn't always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does. —ANONYMOUS”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Abruptly, she let go of his wrists and allowed him to push her to her knees. She looked up, waited for his smile.

And then she punched him in the nuts.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“I've never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“Propose a theory to explain one of there eternal mysteries: Mona Lisa's smile, crop circles, or Velveeta.

Here is a theory of love:
you find a sister, you gain
a brother; you lose
a sister, you lose
a brother; you lose a cat,
you find a girl, you kiss
a girl, you find the cat,
you hope
that there is nothing left to lose, and
all there is, is there to find.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“If other people thought art was important, then it would be required to graduate. But no, I don’t have to take art. I do have to take math, which is just a waste of time because the numbers get all switched up in my brain, plus, calculators exist for a reason. I do have to take history, which is basically memorizing tariff acts till your brain bleeds. I do have to take four years of gym class with a bunch of jerks who punch me if they don’t like what I say. But art? Optional. Even though art and music and literature and all that are what make us human. Algebra doesn’t make us human. Games don’t make us human.”
― Laura Ruby, Bad Apple

“She got icing all over her face. I think that's why I like her. For the good stuff, she's willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn't want a girl like that?”
― Laura Ruby

“Compose a haiku in honor of a person you admire. You are spiky spring, humming summer, wings that beat back ghosts of winter.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi.”
― Laura Ruby, Bad Apple

“You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.”
― Laura Ruby, The Chaos King

“Everyone loves a villain. Or maybe not a villain, exactly, but someone you can point out and say, "I might be weird, but I'm not weird like her.”
― Laura Ruby, Bad Apple

“In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.”
― Laura Ruby, Bone Gap

“It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.”
― Laura Ruby