Suanne Laqueur > Quotes

“Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“Many people like being alone, but nobody likes to be lonely.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“She smiled back at him. Neither of them had said so much as hello yet she was looking at him with those eyes. Deep in the cathedral of his young being, Erik felt a bell toll, a peal of recognition. And for the rest of his life, he would swear, he would swear to anyone who asked, although nothing was said aloud, he heard Daisy Bianco speak to him. She said it with her eyes, he heard it clearly in his head, and it wasn’t hello.
It was, 'Well, here you are...'
Here I am, he thought.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“I'm feeling so much. I don't even have names for what I feel.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it’s been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I’m going to love you again tonight.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“I want to kiss you until I die”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“Don’t marry the guy who’s your drinking buddy,” she told Deane. “Marry the guy who holds your head while you’re throwing up, then wipes down the toilet afterward.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“You’re the best thing to ever happen to me twice.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“She was a beautiful china cup on a table, quietly asking to be filled. And little by little, Erik was tipping over and pouring out.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“Bowl of rejection,” Kees was saying. “Or bowl of regret. That’s what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“Jav’s face was numb. Fingertips ice cold. His shirt stuck to his back with sweat and every square inch o“f skin prickled and tingled. He could feel his heart breaking down, dropping off piece by piece into the rolling boil of his stomach. Every splash sending up clouds of toxic steam, choking his throat. He was sure the next words out would be inside a scream. Instead he heard a strong, calm voice—a seasoned captain taking over the helm.
“I’m with you,” Jav said. “Fucking take their ship down. I’m here. Right until the end, I won’t leave.”

Excerpt From: Suanne Laqueur. “An Exaltation of Larks.” iBooks.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“At some point you just gotta start living the truth of who you are and what you feel.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“I can’t,” he whispered, knowing he could, but wishing with every fiber of his being he didn’t have to.
“You can,” Will said. “You don’t have to do it well. You just have to do it.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“You broke and left, but then you came back. Because you were meant to be mine.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We’ve all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes up pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I’m sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Your daughter went to bed on the eve of her thirteenth birthday as a sweetheart, and woke up the next morning a bitch. You never stopped loving her, but goddamn, you had a lot of days when you didn’t like her. At all.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“A hush fell over them. For a long moment, while she was leaning her chin on her hand atop the piano lid, and his hands rested lightly on the keys, they stared at each other. The stage, the wings, the maw of the theater and its rows of seats and ornamental moldings, all receded. The air about them shimmered, drew in, coalesced into a bubble. They looked at each other, breathing together, long past a socially acceptable interval. It was far beyond the border where Erik normally would have dropped his gaze, cracked a joke or at least a smile.
She’s peaceful, he thought, and her eyes widened slightly, as if she had heard him.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“..she reached invisible hands to try him on. And found the warm jacket of his simplest self fit her perfectly. She pulled it close around her shoulders, drew her hair out from beneath its collar. "I like you," she whispered, lost in his eyes. You fit me, she thought.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

“you can let your sorrow accompany you on the road of life without letting it be the road itself.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

“It feels like your darkest time. But I think it’s going to be your finest hour.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

“I want to kiss you,” he said. His thumb moved out of the hollow of her throat, and then back in. “Badly.”
Her eyes closed and her brows hunched over them a moment. Then her forehead smoothed, as if she had worked out the solution to a problem. “No,” she said. “You want to kiss me well. You just want it badly.”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“Invisible fingers had reached into her mind that day, found the flame of memory and pinched it out.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

“Part of you still feels him. Because you never detached. You never fell out of love.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True

“Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn't like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love

“I'm still learning how to feel what I feel as I'm feeling it.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Uncle Erik,” Jack said, appearing on the other side of the screen. “Let’s go fishing.”
“I can’t,” Erik said, his eyes closed.
“Why not?”
“Because I’m loving your aunt right now.”
Jack sucked his teeth. “You can love her anytime you want.”
“But I want to love her right now.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“Leaving isn’t always the end of loving.”
― Suanne Laqueur, Here to Stay

“It’s not the Larks that kill you. It’s the exaltation.” “Christ…”
― Suanne Laqueur, An Exaltation of Larks

“I want you so much," he said against her mouth.
"You know I've never-"
"I know, he said. "You said you were waiting for the one."
"I think I was waiting for you.”
― Suanne Laqueur, The Man I Love