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Shine QUOTES

Shine QUOTES

1 " If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

2 " We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

3 " Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

4 " Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

5 " 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

6 " 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

7 " 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. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

8 " 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

9 " 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

10 " If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

11 " 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

12 " I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

13 " 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 , Shine

14 " Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

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

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

16 " 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

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

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

18 " I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

19 " So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended.
Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good. "

― Lauren Myracle , Shine

20 " 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