Lauren Baratz-Logsted Quotes & Sayings

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

We don't know he's a shyster." "His name's Monte Carlo and he's from New Jersey. What else do we need to know? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

A first kiss, I think, should be important, special. It should be with the person you want to kiss more than anybody in the world. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Whatever happens, I will stand beside her. ~Lucius — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I turn to look over my shoulder - in a minute, I will lay down my pen - and think, write that there is only one thing I know for certain, and it has everything to do with "happy". Indeed, it is the last thing I will say on the subject:
There is not a story, in the entire history of the world, that cannot be improved upon by the inclusion of a character named Kit. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

There are two good reasons for being nice to the underdogs in this life. One, because if the underdog grows up to be the kind of person that starts shooting, you'll have a chance at survival. Two, because it's the right thing to do the third reason being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Does not a child recognize her own mother? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

The world, I sometimes think, is filled with someone liking someone who likes someone else who likes someone else. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It is amazing how much you can see in other people - the good and the bad, we won't even talk about the ugly - if you just shut up and watch them. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Some days I am all about the ironic gesture — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Violence: these days, it is all the rage — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

But I seem to recall that you can rub the outside of an apple until it shines without ever eradicating the worm within. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

but seven of us went to where she was standing, looked — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It is indeed possible to be widely read, as I am, and still have black holes in one's knowledge. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Because I want to go to the dance," I said.
"But why can't you go as a boy? Won't it be risky going as a girl?"
Of course it would be risky. But everything I'd done for the past four months had been risky.
I took a deep breath before speaking. "I want to go as a girl, because I want to dance with a particular boy."
Mrs. Smithers rolled her eyes at this. "There's always a boy, isn't there? — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

You realize that life is simply too short to keep being someone you're not. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Fly at me, Lucy. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all...
But is it? Is it really better to know a thing you love only to lose it?
If I'd known then what I know now...
But that's the thing, isn't it? When you're living a thing...you don't know. You take it for granted, like a dog being petted, assuming it will somehow go on forever.
If I'd known what I know now...
I'd have touched everything in sight, everything I could get my hands on. I'd have grabbed the nearest girl I could find and not even caring how crazy she thought me, touched my hands to her face just to know what that feels like.
Is it better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all?
I, never having loved before, have no real answer to that question. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I love letters from little kids. Adults never proclaim themselves 'your #1 fan! — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I will become her Gallowglass — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

I am feeling much better now. I am fairly certain it was your letters that kept me alive. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted

It was a curiously happy picture: a dark-haired girl...sternly cautioning her bare-kneed younger brother not to be so loud in church, then bending down to whisper with a mischievous smile, 'If you can only sit still for five more minutes, once we are out of here I will play a great game with you. You will enjoy it.' Flash of merry dark eyes. 'There will be worms involved. — Lauren Baratz-Logsted