80 Quotes by Laurie Frankel

That’s what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what’s the point of stories?

This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn’t silver lining; it was a whole silver sky.

One is the loneliest number.

For the moment’s all there is, my darling.

Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important that we all pretend – make believe – it is. One way or another books tell the stories of their readers. But telling our lives is not the same as shaping them, whittling them away. Suddenly Jill had lost control. Her books had taken over and were in charge.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you’ll realize that’s way too much and worry about it less and you’ll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Oh the things that hide secretly in our children, lying in wait, doing untold damage, yearning to be free. Alarming us beyond all measure.

Virtue leads straight to transformation; transformation leads instantly to happily ever after.

It’s your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what’s to come.