70 Quotes by Laura Ruby

I’m sorry,′ Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn’t let it go.

Thinking that you can’t protect the ones you love, you have to hope they’re smart enough to save themselves.

People say the word ‘nice’ and they mean ‘boring.’ A lot of times nice is boring. But that’s not what I mean. Roza was nice and not boring at all.

Because we don’t have your typical gaps around here. Not gaps made of rocks or mountains. We have gaps in the world. In the space of things. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that they’re there. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. Or maybe you don’t want to find your way out.

I’ve never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.

Nothing is funny about war. But one must find reasons to laugh anyways, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that” -Sister Bert.

Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.

He preferred her barefoot, he said. She had such lovely feet. Roza didn’t agree. What was lovely about feet that could not take you anywhere? What was lovely about feet that could not run?

I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn’t always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.