Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects. — Laura Miller Body Copy Share Image
“Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing… — Laura Miller Butterfly-weeds Copy Share Image
“She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of… — Laura Miller Butterfly-weeds Copy Share Image
“Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It’s something you always have. You just have to believe you do.” — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly” — Laura Miller Book Copy Share Image
“Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.” — Laura Miller Another life Copy Share Image
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. — Laura Miller Adventure Copy Share Image
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics… — Laura Miller City Copy Share Image
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder:… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“You are my love of loves, my dream of dreams, my hope of hopes, and I would take the journey all over… — Laura Miller Dreams Copy Share Image
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses,… — Laura Miller Beautiful Copy Share Image
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp… — Laura Miller Genie Copy Share Image
“in one morning, I had woken up with my first love, crawled into bed with my new love, shed a layer of… — Laura Miller First love Copy Share Image
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“This is one of the chief differences between a child's experience of a favorite book and an educated adult's. For the adult,… — Laura Miller Art Copy Share Image
“...remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” — Laura Miller Life Copy Share Image
“I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t… — Laura Miller First love Copy Share Image
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller Art Copy Share Image
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“And I didn't even try to fight the smile returning to my face, as I realized in that moment that I would… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with magic”… — Laura Miller Books Copy Share Image
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and… — Laura Miller Adventure Copy Share Image
