99 Quotes by Laura Miller

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.

I’ll love you until the last petal falls, Jules.

She always used to say that the past is a relentless parasite in its quest, feeding off of the senses, looking for anything that will trigger a memory–forever there to complicate the present, forever there to remind us that it will always be a piece of us. I never had a clue as to what she meant, until now.

Here, Fridays were dedicated to the two Bs–Beach and Boats.

Tell me you’ve seen the world.Now, you’ve come back homeTell me you’ve carried me with you,That you’ve held me close.Tell me you’ve missed meOr that I’m not crazy for waiting causeOf all the butterflies that chose to stay,I’m in love with the one that got away