Laura Steven Quotes

“We were bright and young and brilliant, alive with glittering promise, and yet we went to such extreme lengths to keep ourselves small. No matter the cost.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

“Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

“I think I was just born hungry.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

“My own company was the only company I could honestly say I enjoyed. It was the great paradox of my existence.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

“It was late September, and the heat of the summer had faded to an orange ember. The wych elms clustered in the quad had been kissed yellow at the tips, and the air was tinged with woodsmoke and clove.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing