Laura Smith

“Careful. In nature, beauty is a warning. The pretty ones are often poisonous.”
― V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

“They say you don’t know your principles until they become inconvenient to you,”
― Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

“Didn’t human sexuality at its base always involve a pathetic sort of throbbing insecurity, awful to contemplate?”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“sometimes, there are people who are destined never to have anyone fall in love with them. It doesn’t matter what they look like, how they behave, how much money they have, how much kindness exists in their heart. The love of another person is simply never going to be theirs. There’s some aspect of them, something inherent, something indefinable, that makes people turn away. And I think I’m one of those people. ‘Evan,’ she”
― John Boyne, Earth