287 Quotes by Lauren Groff

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    Life isn’t worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.

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    He'd woken up to the absence of Mathilde in the bed, grief in the coolness where her heat should have been.

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    In the grainy gray day, Paris overwhelmed her with the scents. Exhaust and piss and bread and pigeon shit and dust and shedding plane trees and wind.

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    There was the other thing, the far worse thing. During the same time she began to write, she left him. He was wrapped up in his work. She came back and he never knew she was gone.

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    Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself.

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