70 Quotes by Laura Dave

Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.

There are parts I wish didn’t exist, parts I can’t look away from now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart – and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

Each species of wood has its own distinctive patterns and colors, which are revealed when the bowl is turned. – Philip Moulthrop.

I’d learned early on that people stay away if they think you’re struggling. They don’t want the stink to fall on them too.

It’s never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It’s only about figuring out how to get there.

I’m not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we’re looking for.

The could-have been boys still love you.