287 Quotes by Lauren Groff
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
My eyes were closed and I was almost asleep when I said, Tell me. You think there are still good people in the world?Oh ,yes, he said. Billions. It’s just that the bad ones make so much more noise.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
He thought of how the world without humans would be more brilliant, greener, teeming with strange life, rats with opposable thumbs, monkeys in spectacles, mutant fish building palaces below the sea. How, in the grant scheme of things, it would be better without human witness anyway.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
It occurred to her then that life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up. A speck on the slender child grows into a gross deformity in the adult, inescapable, ragged at the edges.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that will circle back again and again, and hurt them in small ways for the rest of their lives.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
[Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
She'd never met a child with beady eyes before. Beadiness arrives after long slow ekes of disappointment, usually in middle age.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Lauren Groff
-
Quote
Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.
- Tags
- Share