Top 90 Laura Dave Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Even if things didn’t always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to.”

— Laura Dave

52. “I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I didn’t understand that was the surest way to wind up exactly where you started. 44 In the morning, I looked out the window, feeling foggy and damp, like I’d had a bottle of wine the night before.”

— Laura Dave

53. “I’m not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we’re looking for.”

— Laura Dave

54. “You have something you want to do. Something you like to do. Something you’re good at. Why don’t we start with that? Why don’t you let that be the entire plan for now?”

— Laura Dave

55. “Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?”

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56. “But I knew the other part wasn’t about me, so I decide not to make it about me now. 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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57. “When the world goes quiet again, it will take everything I am not to allow the grief of his loss to level me.”

— Laura Dave

58. “He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”

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59. “My father never measured success the way he did – reaching the top-top of something, as if there was an objective tip-top. My father measured it by how well you figured out what you wanted for your life – what you needed to be happy” -Georgia.”

— Laura Dave

60. “You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.”

— Laura Dave

61. “It leaves you in the same strange place, trying to figure out how to navigate the world without the most important person watching.”

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62. “The way you say hello. The way you say goodbye.”

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63. “Gotta pick a piece of wood,” I said. “It all starts with picking a good piece of wood. If that’s no good, you have nowhere good to go.” “How.”

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64. “There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.”

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65. “Not that I’m saying that I didn’t have a choice in working for them. I believe you always have a choice. And the choice I made was to defend people who, by law, deserve a proper defense. There’s honor in that. I never lied to my family about.”

— Laura Dave

66. “How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for.”

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67. “This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn’t with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.”

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68. “Maybe this only had to be as big as I let it be. So why was I letting it be everything?”

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69. “It’s a terrible thing to know everything about someone long after you want to.”

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70. “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.”

— Laura Dave

71. “Don’t Ask a Question You Don’t Want the Answer To.”

— Laura Dave

72. “My grandfather used to say that most people don’t want to hear the thing that will make it work better,” I said. “They want to hear what will make it easier.” “And what did he say to do about that?” “Find other people. You know, for starters.”

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73. “But being absent and being peaceful are two different things. They can look alike, but they are really the opposite.”

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74. “We knew each other so well by this point – knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you’re still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.”

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75. “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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76. “You cannot make a deal with the devil and expect it to turn out okay.”

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77. “I hear the crazy. She sounds crazy. Maybe that’s what happens when the bottom falls out, you lose the ability to modulate – to make your words make sense to the rest of the world.”

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78. “But I’m left sitting here, without him, anyway. Doesn’t that make me as ridiculous as my mother is? Doesn’t it make me the same as her? Both of us putting our faith in someone else above everything else – calling it love. What good is love, if this is where it leads you?”

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79. “I’ll have my first still moment to think about myself. To think about what I’ve lost, what I’ll never have back. To think only of myself. And of Owen, of what I’ve lost- what I’m still losing- without him.”

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80. “Wasn’t that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you’d been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself.”

— Laura Dave

81. “This was something we sometimes did on days we got home late – on days we were too tired to get into the big stuff. We each picked one thing from the day to tell each other about. One good thing from our separate lives.”

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82. “As she reads, I listen to her.”

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83. “You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.”

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84. “He raised a glass to them and said, wherever they were, he was grateful to them for not being what I needed, so he got to be the one sitting across from me.”

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85. “She tries to figure out how to say it so he hears her.”

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86. “I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else’s life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process.”

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87. “Gwyn looks up at her daughter, makes her meet her eyes. “What I think is that there is no good way or bad way. And the sooner we let go of expectations about how things are supposed to go, the happier we get to be.”

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88. “I’d want to remember how I had felt sitting here – to take it with me, this sense of relief I knew we were both feeling, the quietly growing momentum that eventually I’d understand comes from letting go of the things you were holding on too tightly to in the first place.”

— Laura Dave

89. “White Russians.”

— Laura Dave

90. “She has learned, over time, that the way someone laughs often mirrors who they are. How they are.”

— Laura Dave

91. “The Uber pulls onto Presidential Boulevard and heads toward the hotel, which is on Lady Bird Lake near the Congress Avenue Bridge.”

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92. “A defense attorney, at least a good defense attorney, never tries to convince anyone of anything. We do the opposite. We remind everyone you can’t know anything for sure.”

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93. “What’s the hard part?” “Owen’s not who you think he is,” he says.”

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94. “Did you keep your own checking account?”

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95. “We always have a choice. That’s what Grady said too. What does that even mean? That there is a right thing to do and there is a wrong thing to do. Simple. Judgmental. And if you are the person someone is asking that question about, you have chosen wrong – as if the world is divided between the people who have never made a big mistake. And the people who have.”

— Laura Dave

96. “I’m not sure we get to, Annie,” he said. “I’m not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we’re looking for.”

— Laura Dave