21 Quotes by Laura Lam

Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.

A good magician’s performance tells a story. Each act should build on the next, becoming ever more engaging to fill the audience with wonder. It’s a bud that unfurls into a flower, meant to woo the audience.

I was just thinking how the purr of a contented cat is one of my favorite sounds in the world. There's something so comforting about it, isn't there?

I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.

Earth was such a little, vulnerable thing in the grand scope of the universe.

Whenever I asked her to tell me what happened up there, Naomi would say no one who has been to space could ever describe it to someone who hasn’t.

Everyone had grown used to giving orders to the pleasant-voiced feminine robots. Alexa, Siri, Sophia, Sage, do this for me. A perky ‘okay’, and your wish was her command. They’d all been doing it for years before women started realising the men in their lives had been conditioned to do the same to them. And by then it was too late.

Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.

The circus collects the outsiders like a flame tempts moths.