Lauren Myracle Quotes

Lauren Myracle

Lauren Myracle is an American writer of young adult fiction. She has written many novels, including the three best-selling “IM” books, ttyl, ttfn and l8r, g8r. (Lauren Myracle Quotes)

“A lot of people are afraid of alligators, Mel. Some people are afraid. Another man is worse than an alligator.”
Lauren Myracle
How To Be Bad

“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
Shine

“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
Kissing Kate

“All of us sometimes make mistakes – which means that we must be able to forgive others.”
Lauren Myracle
How To Be Bad

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

“At the end of the day, we all need each other. Women need men, men need women, and nobody should be anyone’s sex slave.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“Because I was good at inventing stories, and long long long ago I’d told Ty that a witch named the Bathroom Lady lived in the sewer system and slurped up tasty children through the pipes. I made the story good, too, giving the Bathroom Lady rubbery lips and grasping claws as blue and cold as ice. Whoops. I rapped on the door of the bathroom, then twisted the knob and barged in. Ty was squatting fully dressed by the tub. Not in the tub, but by the tub, just staring at the drain. He whipped his head around at the sound of my arrival.”
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen Plus One

“Because it’s good for nothing,” I said. keeping my eyes on Tommy. “Because one worthless piece of shit deserves another.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“But if I didn’t know Kate, then maybe I didn’t know myself-and if was that not-knowing that made my gut clench. Like losing your balance, that whoosh of almost falling, before pulling yourself back in line.”
Lauren Myracle
Kissing Kate

“But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new – that’s my point.”
Lauren Myracle
Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks

“Cats and dogs are said to be sworn enemies, but I don’t believe it. I think we get to choose our enemies, just like we choose our friends.”
Lauren Myracle
Under the Moon

“Damn you. Why do you plant these things in my head?”
Lauren Myracle
ttyl

“Did everyone think about death practically every day, or was it just me? Did everyone wonder why we existed, and if life was nothing but a fluke?”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“Don’t cry because it’s over. smile because it happened.”
Lauren Myracle
l8r, g8r

“Don’t give away what you have, but don’t let what you have all you ever have.”
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen

“Even if I don’t know a girl, or even if I know her but don’t necessarily like her, I’m all the time falling in love for brief, intense spurts.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“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
Shine

“God loves you even on your blackest days, and He will always, always be there to guide you home. All you have to do is look for the light of His love.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“He leaned in and kissed her, because now that he knew he could, he planned on kissing her every chance he got.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“He slung both arms around the back of his chair, and it reminded me how different girls and guys were. Girls kept their bodies tucked in tight, while boys took up every inch of room they could.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“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
Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks

“I almost fell into the trap of thinking too much about the moment instead of living the moment, which would have been disastrous, because once I start thinking like that, it’s hard to stop.” (Lauren Myracle Quotes)
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“I am Winnie’s pee! I thought. Hear me roar! It was times like these when I wondered if everyone really was as strange as I was, or if I was just a special case.”
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen Plus One

“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
Kissing Kate

“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
Shine

“I didn’t say it was dumb. It’s what you feel, and guess what? Feelings are like 3yr. olds. They’re not rational. They’re just there.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“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
Shine

“I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly — and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans. I counted myself among those pitiful ranks. I didn’t slam meth or get stinking drunk or go off and molest anyone, but that didn’t let me off the hook. I hid in the shadows, but hiding had the power to hurt, too.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“I often get a particular wrinkled-nose look from Mom: mild revulsion mixed with fondness, as if she can’t quite believe she made me, this large, sometimes stinky, always untidy boy who double dips and chugs orange juice out of the carton even though she begs me not to.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“I quote from the Bible: thou shalt not let a sorority girl named Candy dictate anything about your personal lifestyle, or thou shalt turn into a pillar of salt.”
Lauren Myracle
Yolo

“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 anyway. We can’t keep from hoping.”
Lauren Myracle
Bliss

“I’m not picking mcdonald’s, and I’m not picking Chinese. I’m sorry, but I’m picking some place really good, cut if they’re gonna give us bad news, they’re going to have to do it over a super nice meal.”
Lauren Myracle
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“If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“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
Ten

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

“I’m always right. Except when I’m not.”
Lauren Myracle
Violet in Bloom

“In fifty years, we’ll be like those old men who spend hours at all-day breakfast diners. We’ll have big ears and tufting sprouts of nose hair, and we’ll guffaw at everything the other says. Heh-heh-heh, you know it, Roby. Pass the damn ham.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“It’s okay if you’re not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you’re on the way to being happy”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“It’s unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“It’s what you feel, and guess what? Feelings are like three-year-olds. They’re not rational. They’re just there.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“Just because you’re into Kate…well, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re gay. Although it’s okay if you are. But if that’s what’s worrying you…’ Ariel sighed. ‘God. It shouldn’t be so hard to talk about this stuff. All I’m saying is maybe you’re gay and maybe you’re not. Maybe you’re bi. Or maybe it’s totally a Kate thing. Maybe you’d want to be with her whether she was a girl or a boy.’ I blinked. I didn’t know if what she said made things better or worse.”
Lauren Myracle
Kissing Kate

“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“Life is to be enjoyed, Jessie – because no one knows how long he has left to live.”
Lauren Myracle
How To Be Bad

“Mama Sweetie said you didn’t need a reason to sing. She said if everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“Maybe being known by someone, really being known by someone, wasn’t a party trick like ESP. Maybe it was about opening your heart to that person, consciously and on purpose.”
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen Plus One

“Mysteries are worth examining, even if they’re too big to be understood.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“Not everybody likes bunnies and trees, but everybody likes executive housing complexes.”
Lauren Myracle
Yolo

“Paul, watching you hallucinate is boring as fuck,” Roby said. “If you want to chill, great. If you’re going to drink your stupid purple drank, I’m going to take off.” And he did. I kept drinking my stupid purple drank, and he left.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“Roby was honest in a kind way. If I was being stupid, he told me. But he also talked me up, telling me my fashion sense was dope and that I had good taste in music.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her…but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“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
Thirteen

“Sometimes the things we hide—aren’t they the parts of us that matter most?”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“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 Quotes)
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen

“That’s why I love that kid. I can get a proper roasting from him and still be good friends.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“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
Yolo

“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
The Infinite Moment of Us

“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
Thirteen

“The tooth emerged, like a great white whale,” he said. “We alerted the press.”
Lauren Myracle
Thirteen Plus One

“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
l8r, g8r

“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
Shine

“There were so many people in the world. Some were jerks, but most were kind.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us

“There’s something strange about this big pink bunny.”
Lauren Myracle
l8r, g8r

“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
Thirteen

“Time is the fabric that makes space possible.”
Lauren Myracle
The Backward Season

“Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn’t made of candy.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“We all mess up. It’s what we learn from our mistakes that matters.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“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
Wishing Day

“When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain’t right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.”
Lauren Myracle
Bliss

“Wind in our hair, sun on our skin, school done for the day and stored safely on a shelf til tomorrow…damn, this being alive thing felt frickin awesome.”
Lauren Myracle
This Boy

“Yet it was an odd twist of language. Based on the way people usually used the words, Christian was straight and Patrick was gay. But Christian, when he got wasted, was gay if you used the old-fashioned, oh-so-merry definition of the word, while Patrick was straight-edge because he didn’t drink to the point of passing out.”
Lauren Myracle
Shine

“You can remove a tattoo; it’s just difficult. And supposedly it’s pretty painful. Some things, on the other hand, can’t be undone.”
Lauren Myracle
Kissing Kate

“You need to be sober, Jesse. Any relationship ends sooner or later – and often at the very moment when you least expect it. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Lauren Myracle
How To Be Bad

“You should eat a waffle! You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle!”
Lauren Myracle
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“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
The Infinite Moment of Us

“You’re saying the mysteries are worth examining, even if they’re too big to be understood. That maybe they’re bound to be too big to understand, but that doesn’t take anything away from them, and in fact just adds to their beauty.”
Lauren Myracle
The Infinite Moment of Us