If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly… — Laura Miller Book 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 For-all-you-have-left Copy Share Image
“Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian… — Laura Miller Beauty Copy Share Image
Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. — Laura Miller Behind Copy Share Image
“Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity,… — Laura Miller Better 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
“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 first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love… — Laura Miller Book 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
“Because I see A rainstorm in June Just before the sun The black of night Just before the stars And, girl, I… — Laura Miller Butterfly-weeds Copy Share Image
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller Book 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
“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
People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely. — Laura Miller Assuming 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 Point of view Copy Share Image
“I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon… — Laura Miller Butterfly-weeds Copy Share Image
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away. — Laura Miller Butterfly 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
“Little girl, little boy If love has a way Fill their fields with laughter And scatter the sun on their day And… — Laura Miller Boys Copy Share Image
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller Ifs 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
“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
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Convince Copy Share Image
The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy,… — Laura Miller Attention Copy Share Image
