Laura > Laura's Quotes

“Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.”
― Laura Miller, For All You Have Left

“I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.”
― Laura Miller, For All You Have Left

“I loved you before you existed, and I’ll love you after I’m gone.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“To exist in each other’s souls so strongly that you are bound without a physical tie is the greatest mark of love…”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Love is not the same thing as a marriage or a relationship or having children. Love is not work. Love is a feeling, pure and simple. It’s a feeling you can have one moment, in which you believe you could throw yourself in front of a speeding train for someone; and it can vanish the next, when they tear your heart out and steal every last beat for themselves.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“I don’t know what I’ll do if I fall in love with him.”
“If you fall, let him catch you.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“I’ve been looking for the same thing most of us are looking for.”
“What’s that?”
“Someone to come home to.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Love is a thing that you can’t take out of you. Once it’s there, it doesn’t go away, no matter what. Love can morph into hate and resentment, but it will always be there, buried under the bad feelings.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Sometimes we're just along for the ride. We can't control everything; we can only do our best to control our reactions when life doesn't go our way.”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Little Thing

“True love is the ironically selfless need to know that your person will be okay without you.”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Little Thing

“I realized a long time ago that if you keep all that stuff inside, the stuff that makes you most uniquely you, then you will never find your person. You’ll just wither from within and forget who you are, and if you can’t see you, then he can’t see you. Don’t be scared. I’ve seen you, Kate, who you really are, and you’re worth it. You’re worth all of it.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Leave your life. Leave everyone you love, every care, every stress, every commitment. Live alone. Understand what it feels like to know that if you go into cardiac arrest, choke on a piece of hot dog, or get electrocuted, no one will find you. You’ll rot. No one will mourn you. Imagine this feeling haunting your thoughts for the rest of your life. You’ll wither and vanish, and some stranger will take care of your things and your burial, and you may not even get a placard. Imagine that, live it, and let yourself believe that you should be alone, and then go back to the people who love you.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Love equals a morbid and relentless fear of losing the other person. It’s a freak-accident fear, a piece of space junk falling from the sky and obliterating him, leaving nothing but his smoking boots. It’s the unfortunate-organ-defect fear—suddenly, on his thirtieth birthday, the little crack in his heart that’s been there since birth will rear its ugly head and take him in his sleep while he’s spooning you. It’s the only way to know you’re really in love, when you ask the question would it be harder to watch him die, or to know he’ll watch me die? Is there more mercy in being the one who does the watching or in being the one who does the dying? It’s when you realize what mercy-killing actually means, it’s when you actually care to the point of tormenting worry. It’s not roses and white horses, it’s fucking brutal and it can send a person running for the hills. To love is brave and Will was the bravest person I knew.”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Thing

“It seemed like everything I knew at twenty-five morphed into everything I didn't know by twenty-six, when I was suddenly hit with the realization that many of the decisions we make in our early twenties are permanent.”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Gratitude is the quality of being thankful and the readiness to show appreciation in return.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“sometimes we figure things out, and then life changes and we have to figure it all out again.”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Why we acknowledge birthdays after death makes no sense, but I guess it’s a way to stay committed to remembering somebody. Maybe it’s because, after we die, we are so easily forgotten. I wondered who would remember me.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Love life and life will love you back.’ ”
― Renée Carlino, Sweet Thing

“Just being your friend is going to be hard, but I’ll try. It’s just that . . . I like you. You’re witty and sweet, and you happen to be the most infinitely beautiful woman I’ve ever met.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Whispers, that’s what she calls them. They’re signs, small sounds, or little reminders, letting you know that there’s something bigger than us out there. That there’s a force working hard to make things right in the universe.”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“I am a man. I've dated, but I`m not interested in sleeping around. I want to be with someone who intrigues me, who can have fun with, who I can laugh with, but who will challenge me. I`ve been looking for the same thig most of us are looking for."
"What's that?"
"Someone to come home to”
― Renée Carlino, Nowhere but Here

“Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“I don't hate you. I could never hate you. Give me your heart, Kacey. I'll take everything that comes with it.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk on the beach. We'll go hang-gliding, or bungee jumping, or whatever you want to do. Whatever makes you smile and laugh more. Let me make you smile.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“1. I’m brilliant
2. I’m charming
3. I’m hung like a thoroughbred
4. I’ve stopped all philandering
5. I’m highly skilled, as you’ve learned the other night.

P.S. Stop staring at my hands. I know what you want me to with them.”
― K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie

“I'll make you whole again, Kacey. I promise you, I will.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“Isn't it exhausting?"
"What?"
"Keeping people out.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.”
― K.A. Tucker, One Tiny Lie