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I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (The Long Winter (Little House, #6))
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit: An American Legend)
My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.
Laura Amy Schlitz
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Home is the nicest word there is.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
-Un beso es solo un beso, ¿entiendes? Sólo tiene la importancia que tú quieras darle. Puede no significar nada... o puede cambiarlo todo.
Laura Gallego García (La resistencia (Memorias de Idhún, #1))
Because the difference between a friend and a real friend is that you and the real friend come from the same territory, of the same place deep inside you, and that means you see the world in the same kind of way. You know each other even before you do.
Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge)
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
There's no great loss without some small gain.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3))
La esperanza podía trastornar a una persona hasta hacerla rozar la locura.
Laura Gallego García (La emperatriz de los etéreos)
And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours.
Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
Ellen Bass (The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse)
As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful. They are the things that fill our lives with comfort and our hearts with gladness -- just the pure air to breathe and the strength to breath it; just warmth and shelter and home folks; just plain food that gives us strength; the bright sunshine on a cold day; and a cool breeze when the day is warm.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues (Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder #1))
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
I love you. I've loved you from the beginning. And I will love you long after the last stars dies. I will love you until the end of darkness itself.
Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.
Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge)
I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense.
Laura Wiess (How It Ends)
Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean "love" and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection...There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.
Laura Sessions Stepp (Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both)
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.
Laura Davis (Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child)
The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Without dignity, identity is erased.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.
Laura Gallego García (Dos velas para el diablo)
You’ve made me shiny, Laura,” I said. I tried to stop it, but a little tear ran down the side of my nose. I wiped it away with the back of my hand before it could dampen the ends of my new hair. “Thank you for making me shiny.
Gail Honeyman (Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine)
There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little Town on the Prairie (Little House, #7))
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)
As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Quizá cuando me veas caer a tus pies, muriendo por tu causa, seas capaz de comprender por fin hasta qué punto soy tuyo
Laura Gallego García (Tríada (Memorias de Idhún, #2))
Sabes que tengo que matarte y no lo he hecho todavía, ni tengo intención de hacerlo, y no te imaginas la cantidad de problemas que me puede acarrar eso. ¿Me preguntas si me importas? ¿A ti que te parece?
Laura Gallego García (La resistencia (Memorias de Idhún, #1))
We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our own lives in a way that is not possible for those keeping up with the crowd.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Me refiero al amor –susurró en voz baja-. Cuando amas a alguien, sientes algo aquí –añadió, colocando su mano sobre el corazón de Uri-. Tan fuerte que parece que no puedes respirar. Tan intenso que deseas estar siempre con esa persona y no separarte de ella nunca más.
Laura Gallego García (Donde los árboles cantan)
Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.
Laura Kasischke (The Raising)
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world.
L.M. Elliott (Annie, Between the States)
Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself - if that doesn't make you different then something is wrong.
Laura Baker
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Louie thought: Let go.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
La mera verdad es que la verdad no existe, todo depende del punto de vista.
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
-Una parte de tu corazón me pertenece. Y no pienso renunciar a ella
Laura Gallego García (La resistencia (Memorias de Idhún, #1))
Vive muchos años... Vive intensamente, vivelo todo... Vive por mi la vida que yo no pude vivir. Kai
Laura Gallego García (The Valley of the Wolves (Crónicas de la Torre, #1))
Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.
Laura Fraser (An Italian Affair)
From flame to ashes, dawn to dusk, for the rest of our lives, be mine always, Desmond Flynn.
Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
Its been six weeks," he murmured. "Six weeks I've wanted you. I know how you move, and how the sunlight makes a shadow on the curve of your cheek, and the shape of your ear." He chucked harshly then turned his head on the pillow to look at her. "I'm dying," he said. He dropped his fist against his chest. "Right here, you're killing me.
Laura Kinsale (The Prince of Midnight)
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
Laura Moriarty (The Rest of Her Life)
Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
David Wellington (99 Coffins (Laura Caxton, #2))
She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1))
You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks (Volume 1))
I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
People like us are not victims. We’re someone’s nightmare.
Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
I love...that elevator,” she said. With a sleepy smile and a full heart, he turned his head and kissed into her soft hair. “Aw, Red. I love that elevator, too.
Laura Kaye (Hearts in Darkness (Hearts in Darkness, #1))
I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
Just because something seems impossible doesn´t mean that you shouldn´t try.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently.
Laura Vanderkam
Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotros no podemos amar?
Laura Gallego García (Dos velas para el diablo)
The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
No estoy celoso, si es eso lo que piensas. No veo por qué tienes que amar a una sola persona, si en tu corazón hay espacio para dos. No me perteneces. Tan solo me pertenece lo que sientes por mí. Pero tú puedes sentir otras cosas... por otras personas. Los sentimientos son libres y no siguen normas de ninguna clase.
Laura Gallego García (La resistencia (Memorias de Idhún, #1))
I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.
Laura Whitcomb (A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1))
A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.
Laura Lee Guhrke (Guilty Pleasures (Guilty, #1))
Muchacha, te contaré algo: el mundo está lleno de historias. Todas las personas y todas las cosas tienen historias que contar. A algunas de ellas se llega a través de gente como yo, que las relata para que no se olviden. Otras, en cmbio... se viven. ¿Entiendes? (...) Ahora tú debes decidir (...) si seguirás siendo una oyente o, por el contrario, saldrás en busca de tu propia historia
Laura Gallego García (Donde los árboles cantan)
Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most.
Laura Wiess (Ordinary Beauty)
What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
I was a princess made of ashes; there is nothing left of me to burn. Now it's time for a queen to rise.
Laura Sebastian (Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1))
We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5))
We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.
Laura Sebastian (Ash Princess (Ash Princess Trilogy, #1))
When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
Laura Miller (The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia)
Necesito una respuesta en este momento, el amor no se piensa, se siente o no se siente.
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
People look, they don't see.
Laura Ruby (Bone Gap)
I’ll be at your side, till the darkness dies.
Laura Thalassa (Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1))
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.
Laura Whitcomb (A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1))
At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.
Laura Hillenbrand (Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption)
When the fiddle had stopped singing Laura called out softly, "What are days of auld lang syne, Pa?" "They are the days of a long time ago, Laura," Pa said. "Go to sleep, now." But Laura lay awake a little while, listening to Pa's fiddle softly playing and to the lonely sound of the wind in the Big Woods,… She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.
Laura Dave (The Last Thing He Told Me)
Getting angry at one of the horsemen of the apocalypse for bringing about the end of man is like getting angry at ice for being cold.
Laura Thalassa (Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1))
That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be.
Laura Wiess (Leftovers)
He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.
Laura Dave (The Last Thing He Told Me)
I was born without a filter on my mouth.
Laura Stamps
Tell me you’ve seen the world. Now, you’ve come back home Tell me you’ve carried me with you, That you’ve held me close. Tell me you’ve missed me Or that I’m not crazy for waiting cause Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away
Laura Miller (Butterfly Weeds (Butterfly Weeds, #1))
This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
For some reason I believed that if you fell in love it was a guaranteed thing that your path would cross with his, and I never wondered how if would feel to fall in love with a man whose future just couldn't include you.
Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge)
And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.
Laura Nowlin (If He Had Been with Me)
Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you're about to leave them.
Laura Ruby (Bone Gap)
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.
Laura Dave (The Divorce Party)
Laura looked up at him with dead blue eyes. I want to be alive again," she said. "Not in this half-life. I want to be really alive. I want to feel my heart pumping in my chest again. I want to feel blood moving through me — hot, and salty, and real. It's weird, you don't think you can feel it, the blood, but believe me, when it stops flowing, you'll know." She rubbed her eyes, smudging her face with red from the mess on her hands. Look, it's hard. You know why dead people only go out at night, puppy? Because it's easier to pass for real, in the dark. And I don't want to have to pass. I want to be alive.
Neil Gaiman (American Gods (American Gods, #1))
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I'm not sure who the first person was who said that. Probably Shakespeare. Or maybe Sting. But at the moment, it's the sentence that best explains my tragic flaw, my inability to change. I don't think I'm alone in this. The more I get to know other people, the more I realize it's kind of everyone's flaw. Staying exactly the same for as long as possible, standing perfectly still... It feels safer somehow. And if you are suffering, at least the pain is familiar. Because if you took that leap of faith, went outside the box, did something unexpected... Who knows what other pain might be out there, waiting for you. Chances are it could be even worse. So you maintain the status quo. Choose the road already traveled and it doesn't seem that bad. Not as far as flaws go. You're not a drug addict. You're not killing anyone... Except maybe yourself a little. When we finally do change, I don't think it happens like an earthquake or an explosion, where all of a sudden we're like this different person. I think it's smaller than that. The kind of thing most people wouldn't even notice unless they looked at us really close. Which, thank God, they never do. But you notice it. Inside you that change feels like a world of difference. And you hope this is it. This is the person you get to be forever... that you'll never have to change again.
Laura J. Burns
Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.
Laura Munson (This Is Not The Story You Think It Is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness)
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle would be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.
Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.
Laura Esquivel (Swift as Desire)
Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.
Laura Wiess (Leftovers)
It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.
Laura McBride (We Are Called to Rise)
I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same way for me
Deanne Laura Gilbert