Quotes from Laura Ruby

Rus, dancing alongside Roza like a monstrous, bedraggled pony.

The way you learn to ride is by riding.

Corn can add inches in a single day; if you listened, you could hear it grow.

be something every minute of every day, be sad, be cold, be warm, be hungry, be full, be ragged or well dressed, be truthful, be a liar and a sinner, only be something every blessed minute. Make art, make the most beautiful art you can, draw everything you see, everything you feel. And when you sleep, dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is lost.

Most of the time, she didn't think about them at all. Yet she had her quiet days, her pensive ones, those days when she dug through her memories, trying to find the truth at the bottom of them. As if the truth were a jewel you could unearth and hold in your hand, as if the truth wasn't more like something you'd find under a rock, gray and faceless and squirming away from the light.

And when your brother cries for her, I will feed on his tears.

That's way too adorable," Tess said. "You keep saying that coincidences are adorable when I don't see how one has anything to do with the other," Theo said. "Koala-pandas are adorable." "You're adorable," Tess said. Jaime said, "I'm thinking it's a little adorable, too. Cuddly, at least." "You're hurting my head," said Theo.

People say the word 'nice' and they mean 'boring.

I'm a lady and these are my lady bites." "Mouth closed, please. No one needs to witness your mastication process," said Tess's father

It was as if everyone was a Cipher. You could look for keys and clues, but you might never figure them out.

Even if he got in bed, there would only be twisted sheets and damp pillows as he thrashed and sweated out all the hours of the dark.

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. " "How would you know?

It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.

The energy of young people powers the world. You are smart, Theo. More than that, you are curious, and that will carry you.

Girls were punished so hard for their love, so hard, hard enough to break them.

Therapist:) "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.

Two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as there was no way to bridge the gap.

things like toothpastes from around the world and a shoe once thrown at the head of a former president of the United States.

Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.

Now that you mention it, I was chatting with the crows earlier. They were wondering why you guys walk like you're wearing diapers.

I didn't care if it was magic. I just cared that I was riding with you.

What?" Finn remembered sitting at the kitchen table with Sean, both of them trying to say the world "table" in Polish. Roza had said, "You have tongue like cow!" and laughed and laughed. "What?" Sean said again. He had tongue like cow, he had mind like cow. Dull, wordless.

older movie they'd seen many times about a guy who finds out his life is not really a life, but some sort of computer-generated virtual reality, and he has to save the world from the tyranny of the machines.

Maybe it didn't matter how he was crazy, only the fact that he was, the fact that he wanted someone to be crazy with him.