Top 90 Laura Dave Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Each species of wood has its own distinctive patterns and colors, which are revealed when the bowl is turned. – Philip Moulthrop.”

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2. “I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. – Albert Einstein.”

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3. “People get more work done when they don’t talk.”

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4. “Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.”

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5. “People screw up, you know. You shouldn’t hold it against them. You shouldn’t expect everyone to know everything you’re thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you. They just screwed up.”

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6. “There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.”

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7. “It’s never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It’s only about figuring out how to get there.”

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8. “Rotten wood cannot be carved. – Confucius.”

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9. “You can’t finish the things you weren’t supposed to start.”

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10. “Belief isn’t supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.”

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11. “In physics: It’s called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.”

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12. “The could-have been boys still love you.”

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13. “Sometimes you don’t know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don’t know until it is happening.”

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14. “You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn’t an argument to finish the bottle, I don’t know what is. – Anonymous.”

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15. “How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home – where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been. Home. When you weren’t sure you’d ever get to have one.”

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16. “That sometimes you find your way to the place that wants you most.”

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17. “This is the thing about good and evil. They aren’t so far apart – and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”

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18. “We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what’s actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing, not the thing itself. And five years after that, what’s left is our memory of the memory.”

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19. “There are parts I wish didn’t exist, parts I can’t look away from now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”

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20. “This is the painful part. Love doesn’t leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won’t be.”

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21. “Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us – the people we try to love.”

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22. “Be careful what you give up.”

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23. “Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.”

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24. “I couldn’t help but wonder if that was what love was – believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count.”

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25. “It’s harder to appreciate what you don’t have to look hard to find.”

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26. “Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I’ve been doing wrong with her – what I’ve been doing wrong in how I’ve been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she’d understand she could count on me. But that’s not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone’s too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.”

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27. “Fate suggests no agency. Synchronization is all about agency. It involves all systems running in a state where different parts of the system are almost, if not precisely, ready.”

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28. “This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”

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29. “Time to leave the party; Time to reach for me; Time to give me room to breathe.”

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30. “Most people don’t want to hear the thing that will make it work better... They want to hear what will make it easier.”

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31. “People don’t tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.”

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32. “We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.”

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33. “I stopped paying attention to her. I stopped doing the things that someone does for the person he loves. Because I was tired. Because other things always seemed to matter a little bit more.” He.”

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34. “What happened the day I met your father,′ she said, ’is that I learned you ave to choose. For better or for worse. You have to choose what your life is going to look like.”

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35. “We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.”

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36. “Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?”

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37. “That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore – that something between us had altered irreversibly. And afterward, I started seeing the evidence everywhere: in the way he didn’t sleep facing me anymore, or the way he’d stopped asking me the questions he used to need to know the answers to, the way he stopped needing to tell me things in order for them to count.”

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38. “I don’t deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn’t, that’s exactly when you need to give them one.”

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39. “It’s weird to live somewhere where you can’t see the stars.”

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40. “There are words and there are feelings and somewhere between where the two meet is the truth.”

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41. “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. – Groucho Marx.”

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42. “We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”

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43. “Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it’d be called something else.”

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44. “That’s the brutality of a breakup, isn’t it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn’t even been tested yet.”

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45. “That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don’t feel like it.”

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46. “I’d learned early on that people stay away if they think you’re struggling. They don’t want the stink to fall on them too.”

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47. “But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you” -Jen.”

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48. “Maybe that was just childhood? You hurry up, pick the opposite path, try to make childhood end. Then, as an adult, you have no idea why you were running away. What, exactly, you needed so desperately to get away from.”

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49. “Mother-in-laws are the worst. You know, they don’t like you, they make you feel bad about yourself, they have a divorce party the day you meet them and you have to face the fact that they are crazy. Plus, if you aren’t very sure of yourself, you may start feeling like you are going that way too.”

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50. “Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that’s what they’re willing to fight for” -Dan.”

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