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Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures QUOTES

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures QUOTES

1 " ...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

2 " She wanted the world to stop and take notice before hobbling forward, forever changed. The problem was that no one seemed to be changed but her. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

3 " It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn't spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn't matter. Sisters were sisters. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

4 " That was what love was, though, wasn't it? Holding each other's misery as close as your own? "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

5 " ... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a benevolent place, but she knew better now, and had to fake it. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

6 " ... She was as beautiful and lost as a landlocked mermaid. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

7 " Even if she wasn't happy on the inside, the outside could be something else entirely. There was always another character to play. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

8 " They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

9 " No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

10 " Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

11 " Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again. "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

12 " a good boy almost all of the time, as well behaved as a loyal hound "

― Emma Straub , Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures