Quotes from Lauren Myracle

But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new -- that's my point.

You're saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. That maybe they're bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn't take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.

My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would.

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

Because it's good for nothing," I said. keeping my eyes on Tommy. "Because one worthless piece of shit deserves another.

I heard him tell our parents, "She said no," and my melancholy deepened. Mom and Dad and Chris were downstairs together, merrily strapping on nunchucks and punching each other in the face, while here I was, gloomy and alone. And whose fault is that? I asked myself. Oh, shut up. , I replied.

The world was out there waiting to be explored—and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny?

Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade." "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says. "The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.

He leaned in and kissed her, because now that he knew he could, he planned on kissing her every chance he got.

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.

Curse false-hand-holding boys!

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death.

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in.

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.

hi, puppy." she's not a puppy. She's a girl," Nancy's mother says. Nancy pats me and says, "Good puppy. Nice puppy." When he mother bends down to pull her away, she wraps both arms around my legs and wails. "No! My puppy!

So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended. Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good.

If you love someone, you should be willing to show it. This is our one shot at life.

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?" "Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.