Myracle Quotes & Sayings

I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world. — Lauren Myracle

I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that. — Lauren Myracle

She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies... — Lauren Myracle

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.
Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me. — Lauren Myracle

I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants. — Lauren Myracle

Curse false-hand-holding boys! — Lauren Myracle

Kids need to see their world reflected back to them. — Lauren Myracle

They're not chicks. They're ducks. — Lauren Myracle

It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try. — Lauren Myracle

Mother Superior jump the gun ...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun — Lauren Myracle

And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye. — Lauren Myracle

It wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt. — Lauren Myracle

It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there's-good-music sort of way. — Lauren Myracle

The idea of losing him made her realize how much she wanted him, because yes. Love. Charlie and Wren. Their souls colliding. And they were human, and they made mistakes, both of them, but by herself, Wren was alone. With Charlie, she was half of the 'us' he talked about, only that didn't come close to expressing what she knew to be true: that together they didn't simply become one. They became greater than one. — Lauren Myracle

I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic. — Lauren Myracle

Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut! — Lauren Myracle

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls. — Lauren Myracle

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger. — Lauren Myracle

Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn't made of candy. — Lauren Myracle

There's something strange about this big pink bunny ... — Lauren Myracle

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in. — Lauren Myracle

And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren't yet ready to tell their story. Or don't know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out. — Lauren Myracle

The world was out there waiting to be explored - and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven's name shouldn't I investigate every nook and cranny? — Lauren Myracle

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle! — Lauren Myracle

I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping. — Lauren Myracle

But i can't let you go," he said. "How could I let you go? I searched my heart" - he shrugged - "and I love you. — Lauren Myracle

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet. — Lauren Myracle

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters. — Lauren Myracle

...your ass is grass... — Lauren Myracle

Yes,Addie,you're my girl.You'll be my girl forever. — Lauren Myracle

The best thing you can do is find someone who loves you when you're pretty, when you're ugly, when you're mad, when you're happy. Someone who, no matter what, is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. — Lauren Myracle

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be ... Christmas is a state of mind. — Lauren Myracle

I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine. — Lauren Myracle

If she did see, I hoped she' be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she'd received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me. — Lauren Myracle

no means no, u weirdo stalkerhead! — Lauren Myracle

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons. — Lauren Myracle

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through. — Lauren Myracle

Well, I guess I do too," Ava admitted. "I just . . . I don't think it's fair. To other people. To get sad all the time, you know?" Natasha — Lauren Myracle

You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it's them books what make you talk funny. — Lauren Myracle

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here. — Lauren Myracle

My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would. — Lauren Myracle

Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks. — Lauren Myracle

He wouldn't have seen the wolf in redneck clothing. — Lauren Myracle

All I'm saying is that if you love someone, you should be willing to show it. — Lauren Myracle

You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so ... I don't know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you're part of something bigger. — Lauren Myracle

Mad maddie: zoe, angela is her own worst enemy, you know. zoegirl: i love her so much, but i do kind of understand what you're saying. but i don't know how to tell her that to her face. i don't even know if i want to say it to her face. mad maddie: i do. i just wanna shake her shoulders and say, "GET A CLUE! HE IS A LOSER!!!" zoegirl: i know. it's so sad. mad maddie: yeah, but it's also just ANNOYING. — Lauren Myracle

All I heard were the bumps and crunches of my tires on the dirt road, blending with the dark noises of the forest. But it wasnt the forest that scared me. It was the people who lived and prowled within them. — Lauren Myracle

This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual. — Lauren Myracle

Damn you. WHY do you plant these things in my head? — Lauren Myracle

And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em. — Lauren Myracle

His knuckles slid down, grazing my cheek. — Lauren Myracle

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off. — Lauren Myracle

The tooth emerged, like a great white whale," he said. "We alerted the press. — Lauren Myracle

Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade."
"I don't know," I say.
"But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says.
"The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins. — Lauren Myracle

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told. — Lauren Myracle

But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here. — Lauren Myracle

I'm afraid that you're leaving me, so i'm leaving you first. — Lauren Myracle

I know I seem really friendly, but I'm a closet introvert. — Lauren Myracle

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself. — Lauren Myracle

Hi, puppy."
she's not a puppy. She's a girl," Nancy's mother says.
Nancy pats me and says, "Good puppy. Nice puppy." When he mother bends down to pull her away, she wraps both arms around my legs and wails. "No! My puppy! — Lauren Myracle

I hadn't been "possessed", after all. Not by an angel or a demon. Maybe there were aspects of both inside me, but I was the one who chose which to let out. — Lauren Myracle

Any sentence that combined "I love you" and "but" could not be good. — Lauren Myracle

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part." — Lauren Myracle

Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'? — Lauren Myracle

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided. — Lauren Myracle

All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone. — Lauren Myracle

Whatever you hold onto that you want to do, and that other people tell you you are foolish to want to do - don't give up. — Lauren Myracle

I didn't know what I thought, other than that nothing was easy anymore and no matter what I did, things got messed up. — Lauren Myracle

Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me. — Lauren Myracle

Holidays bring out neediness like nothing else. — Lauren Myracle

Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second? — Lauren Myracle

He leans forward seriously. "Bliss. At work and at play, let safety lead the way."
Of course," I say. "Silly me."
Danger never takes a vacation."
That's right. Expect the unexpected."
And never, never -"
Yes?"
He wags his finger. "Check a gas tank with a lighted flare."
A laugh snorts out. "Good to know. — Lauren Myracle

Kids are doing meth in every town in the country, Cat. Dang. Get your head out of your butt. — Lauren Myracle

They follow meaningless, boring rules and live meaningless, boring lives."
Ahh," I say. "Except for you, of course."
That's right."
Because you eat butter straight from the pan."
She arches her eyebrows, like Hey, I call it like I see it.
Whatever," I say. "I'm not going to eat Snoopy just to make a statement. — Lauren Myracle

Sometimes, with Cinnamon, it was like she fell into this "impress the guy" mode and forgot the primary rule of friendship, which was to make your bud look good in front of her boy. Not stupid. — Lauren Myracle

Except I do care about being pretty. Der. I don't think there's a single person in the world who doesn't care about being pretty. Any female, at any rate. — Lauren Myracle

Mysteries are worth examining, even if they're too big to be understood. — Lauren Myracle

the window was down and my music was blasting and i was like, i am the sun on my skin. i am the clouds in the sky. i'm everything i've ever seen or done or felt or heard, and one day i will be gone. — Lauren Myracle

I keep what I know about Sarah Lynn and Lawrence to myself. I also remind myself that even if Sarah Lynn does have a scary strict father, that doesn't release her from the responsibility of treating others with respect. Abuse of power is wrong, no matter the context, no matter the history.
What is "power" anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it. — Lauren Myracle

I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I'm yours. — Lauren Myracle

So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren? — Lauren Myracle

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. — Lauren Myracle

Because it's good for nothing," I said. keeping my eyes on Tommy. "Because one worthless piece of shit deserves another. — Lauren Myracle

Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like. — Lauren Myracle

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all. — Lauren Myracle

What I find cool about being a banned author is this: I'm writing books that evoke a reaction, books that, if dropped in a lake, go down not with a whimper but a splash. — Lauren Myracle

Give your kid some credit for being smart - just because they read about something doesn't mean they will do it. — Lauren Myracle

Sometimes I worry I'm writing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' for teenagers, but I'm not. — Lauren Myracle

Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?"
She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot."
"Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled. — Lauren Myracle

And you're figuring out who you are, and you haven't yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven't solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, "Oh, thank God all that's over." — Lauren Myracle

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice. — Lauren Myracle

Silly girl, it's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe. — Lauren Myracle

He told me about his slow realization that when one person in a family was sick, the whole family was sick. In Jason's case, the sick person was his father, who was nice enough when he was sober, but mean as a snake when he was drunk. — Lauren Myracle

In my bedroom, I squeezed shut my eyes, because it was too hard, that memory. Too hard, too painful, too much like losing a slice of myself, which, in fact, I had. — Lauren Myracle

Charlie ... I can't go out with you if I'm in love with someone else. Even if he no longer wants me. — Lauren Myracle

If you sense that someone feels disconnected, reach out to them," the speaker urges. "buy them a soda. Compliment their new hairdo. It'll make them feel better, and you'll feel better knowing you've been a channel of grace."
Jolene leans over and whispers, "My pen is feeling disconnected. Will you be a channel of grave and get it for me?"
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Chelsea, quit picking at your scab," a girl in front of me says to her friend as we file out. "It's gross." Then she gasps in mock horror. "Or maybe it's a cry for help! Be strong, Chelsea! Stay with the living! — Lauren Myracle

And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. - Malvina Reynolds — Lauren Myracle

My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There's no way I'm going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you're going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing!
So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head. — Lauren Myracle

I'd heard a saying about meth, that it took you down one of three roads: jail, the psych ward, or death. — Lauren Myracle

Who would want to be poked by some dumb girl with a stick? — Lauren Myracle