Laura Miller Quotes

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.

Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.

Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

I’ll save a spot for you on the hood of my truck.

Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.

More than every once in awhile, More than most dreams, More than just my heart, More than anything, More than you know, And more than I can say, I’ve loved you moreEvery passing day

Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.