"A faint smell of lilac filled the air.……" — Laura Miller
"A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac."
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39 Quotes by Laura Miller
Laura Miller has 39 quotes on this site.
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
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Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who…
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Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
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Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult…
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The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall…
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Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
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If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's…
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There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
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The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art…
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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in…
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It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach,…
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The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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