35 Quotes by Laura Wiess

All you really have...is now.

What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?

I hope someone will be lost without me someday.

Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.

See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.

It happened painfully and without warning, this sudden turning of the heart.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

In a world where everything could be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, it was too incredible to think that this could not.