8 Quotes by Lara Prescott

His words felt like running a hand under cold water after burning it on the stove. The pain might be smoothed while the water runs, but as soon as you turn off the faucet, the throbbing continues.

May our literary weapon of mass destruction make the monster squeal.

This book will take us down a spiral from which there will be no return.

This is not the letter you’ve long sought. This is not about the book. This is not the confession that would prove the crimes you’ve assigned to me. Nor is it a plea for my innocence. I am innocent of what I’ve been accused of, but not of everything.

The trick to pinpointing the man with the biggest bank account in the room is not to look to the man in the nicest tux, but to the man not trying to impress.

We unveil ourselves in the pieces we want others to know, even those closest to us. We all have our secrets.

I wanted them to take a good hard look at a system that had allowed the State to kill off any writer, any intellectual – hell, even any meteorologist – they disagreed with.

Maybe certain poems are meant only for oneself.