Lauren > Lauren's Quotes

“I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.”
― A. S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
― Sarah Kay

“I wish we could go back in time and climb trees together again. I love you, Vera. I always will.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I miss him so much, but it's confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that's the bitch of it all. I missed him long before he was dead.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I want to tell her that the only thing you get from walling yourself in is empty.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“You'll never lose me, Vera. I'm the Great Hunter now.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“Charlie turned to me. "Want some?"
I said, "Nah." What I meant was: Who are you?”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I never asked her how she was, because I didn't really think about how she was. I just thought about what she thought of me.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.”
― A.S. King, Please Ignore Vera Dietz

“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

“A man on a quest. A Don Quixote searching for his Dulcinea. But keep in mind my good friend, Don Quixote never found his Dulcinea, did he? He did not. There sometimes isn’t much difference between a knight’s quest and a fool’s errand.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

“Weird doors open. People fall into things.”
― David Sedaris