Lauren Groff Quotes

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• The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with…
• My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
• If theres a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to…
• Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the Autoharp. This song sounds like something…
• In this moment that blooms and fades as it passes, he is enough, and all is well in the world.
• Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when…
• At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
• As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.
• I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
• 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 me…
• I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in…
• Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be…
• In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.
• When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they…
• 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 you…
• She would always feel this wild girl was the truest of any of the people she had already been: adored daughter, bourgeois priss, rebel, runaway,…
• Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if…
• And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if…
• Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.
• Childhood is such a delicate tissue; what they had done this morning could snag somewhere in the little ones, make a dull, small pain that…

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