Laura Moriarty famous quotes

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My mother says that when Mrs. Rowley is mean, which is generally the case, it is really because she is just unhappy, and who could blame her with a husband like that . . . She says this is really the only reason people are ever mean--they have something hurting inside of them, a claw of unhappiness scratching at their hearts, and it hurts them so much that sometimes they have to push it right out of their mouths to scratch someone else, just to give themselves a rest, a moment of relief.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Mother #Hurt #Husband
You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back
-- Laura Moriarty

#Past #People #Too Late
One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Goes On #Way #Unfinished
Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege
-- Laura Moriarty

#Worry #Alternatives #Privilege
The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Cutting #Trying #Insult
This is how it is now. This is my life.
-- Laura Moriarty
It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Eye #Swimming #Years
Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Baby #Giving #Likes
I know that sometimes when you are really worried about something, it ends up not being nearly as bad as you think it will be, and you get to be relieved that you were just being silly, worrying so much over nothing. But sometimes it is just the opposite. It can happen that whatever you are worried about will be even worse than you could have possibly imagined, and you find that you were right to be worried, and even that, maybe, you weren't worried enough.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Silly #Thinking #Opposites
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Growing Up #Children #Opposites
Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere, sometimes landing in the oceans and in the middle of farms...you could make wishes on them if you like, but they are really just pieces of rock falling down from the sky, and they could land on your head and kill you just as you look up to make a wish. Really, they're just rocks. They don't care about your wishes at all.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Stars #Fall #Ocean
This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.
-- Laura Moriarty

#Good Luck #Luck #Life Is

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