Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Be the first to learn about new releases!
Start by following Lauren Fox.
Showing 1-30 of 41
“Our distance has lived in me like the aftermath of a bad dream-I carry it around, the knowledge that we were once close, that something was lost; it's the lingering sadness of unfinished business. (18)”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways." (19)”
―
―
“We all think we're snowflakes, but we're Tinker Toys, held together by our interchangeable parts. (39)”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“Our hearts are like starfish, regenerating what we’ve lost. We move forward, regroup, reconfigure; people find ways to be happy.”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“I’m in a pocket of glowing light, protected from complicated relationships and huge mistakes, past and future.”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“…how when you love someone, you take that person into your body, your fingertips predicting their angles and curves; how you smell like them in the morning.”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“It’s amazing, really, the things two people think they know about each other.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“This is the truth: You lose some things because you didn’t see the darkness rushing toward you. Some things disappear because it all snuck up on you so quickly and quietly, and you weren’t paying attention. Okay. But once in a while a loss is preventable. You can stop it. And if you don’t, you are to blame. The trick is knowing which is which.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“He was fed up with me by then; I knew that: the way my sadness was a suit of armor. How securely I kept him out.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“In our marriage—in every marriage?—no annoyed glance holds only the displeasure of the moment. Each one reflects all the irritated glances he’s ever shot at me for all of my transgressions: for lacking discipline, for being brittle and sharp, for overreacting, for swearing all the time, even in front of Hannah, for letting my worst self porcupine out before I retract my quills. Every exasperated look Chris gives me—and there have been plenty—carries the sediment of all the displeasure that has accumulated over the past fifteen years.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“Love was foolish and inevitable. We were just waiting to be shattered by it. The days were finite, full of awe.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“And here’s something else I learned: you lose some people that way—fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps. In the end it almost doesn’t matter. They’re just as gone.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“Maybe this is hell, I thought: alone in my house in the middle of the night, stuck in an endless loop of thermal discomfort.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“I’m a refugee from happiness with nowhere else to go.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“If one thing is a secret, everything is”
― Still Life With Husband
― Still Life With Husband
“Death smashes a crater into your life, and you’re left alone to sort through the rubble.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“I’m just crying because when you eat a five-year-old, the portions are so small.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“That’s the way it is with certain people. They set their sights on you. They look at you straight on and they choose you, and they are dazzled by their own brilliant choice. It was the first time anyone had fallen in love with me like that. And I was powerless against it.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“Can you love a work of art if the person who produced it was truly awful?”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways.”
― Friends Like Us
― Friends Like Us
“I was suddenly overwhelmed with the knowledge that this was a moment to pay attention to: this day, this air, these two people. I felt the perfection of the moment and, inside of it, I felt its demise.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“And here's something else I learned: you lose some people that way - fast and blinding. But some people inch away from you slowly, in barely discernible steps.”
―
―
“We’re performing the steps of our oldest dance. And even in this strange, sad, suspended state, I know that we are elegant at it.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“But would it be that easy? To adjust my lens a little? To stop wallowing in all this murky sorrow? To change my attitude, let the sunlight in, fix myself?”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“We were supposed to weather the storms together, but we couldn’t…You’re not who I thought you were.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“I’m trying,” he calls after me, and I want to say, Yes, you are. He’ll get up in a few minutes, put his clothes on, and get in his car and head to his apartment a mile from here, the two-bedroom on the East Side that I helped him pick out, near the lake and full of light, newly decorated with inexpensive but decent furniture and blue rugs and lots of pillows, and far too cozy to be as temporary as we agreed it was.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“Guess what a group of chickens is called?” he asked. “I do not know.” “Go on,” he said. “Guess.” “A bucket?”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“This was what I loved about being a teacher, back then, when I loved it: that every child was some family’s most precious gem, the joy of their hearts, and I could see that, even sometimes when their own parents probably couldn’t; I could see that spark of perfection in every kid, in whatever form it took, a devious sense of humor or a disheveled sweetness, and I loved them all for it. They were grubby and loud and chaotic, and occasionally mean-spirited and dim-witted, sometimes feral and once in a while borderline psychotic. But they had beauty in them.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“The thought of having to accumulate a new history with someone makes me feel uneven, as if my legs are two different lengths.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
“Okay, I’ll admit that Chris and I still want each other. But need? Need is for your first lover on your twin bed in your college dorm.”
― Days of Awe
― Days of Awe
