Happiness Quote by Emma Straub Download Open image ““Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own.”” — Emma Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
“It’s just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again.” — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“Everyone still sees the smiling Laura Palmer. The girl with perfect grades and perfect hair and perfect little fingers that want to sometimes, late… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
“I felt less unhappy than usual because her melancholy expression, the way the vivid colour of her dress almost cut her off from the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She always wishes for the happiness of others like it's the most natural thing. Sometimes I worry... That she's sacrificing her own happiness.” — Yū Satomi Copy Share Image
“And that’s when I realized how incredibly lucky I am to have friends like Laura. Because she took something traumatic and awful and made… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.” — David Maine Copy Share Image
“Laura Ingalls Wilder should have been in class with us, too. With friends like us, she never would have had to put up with… — Jennifer Gooch Hummer Copy Share Image
“She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“... she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason,… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
“Now whenever Franny or Jim spoke to someone who kept a car in Manhattan, they reacted with quiet horror, like people who’d been subjected… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Having a daughter whose company he actually enjoyed was one of Jim’s favorite accomplishments. The odds were against you, in all matters of family… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Teenagers and younger children did not need to sit in business class, let alone first—that was Franny’s philosophy. The extra room was for people… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“What were parents anyway, except two people who had once thought they were the smartest people in the world? They were a delusional species,… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“It's a rental," I said, realizing when I said it that our house was the only rental on the block. Maybe something unseemly had… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Timing was everything—that was more and more obvious the older you got, when you finally understood that the universe wasn’t held together in any… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“It was crazy, what young people believed was possible, what so many earnest twenty-three-year-olds took for granted about the rest of their lives.” — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
“...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got… — Emma Straub Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
