Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all...” — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
You had to pick up a landline to make sure your best friend wore a matching outfit to school. I do remember people talking… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Then, when we had done so, we put our hands upon the freezing cold monster, our monster. And this is what we felt: vertigo,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“He thinks of the rotten parachute they played with as kids in Arcadia: they hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast, but each grasps a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“[Still apparent in him, the tiny boy, mewling in cold and hunger. It’s less delicious, this badness bred from survival.]” — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I had a series of terrible jobs, whatever would allow me to write for four hours during the day. During that time I wrote… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“The stories themselves aren't what moves him now...What moves him are the shadowy people behind the stories, the workers weary from their days, gathering… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts worse,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“They sit here in the darkness, trusting. That the coffee will be hot and unpoisoned. That no raging madman will come in with a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
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