Top 40 Laura Miller Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.”

— Laura Miller

2. “Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!”

— Laura Miller

3. “People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don’t read it very widely.”

— Laura Miller

4. “Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.”

— Laura Miller

5. “Her smile is like a summer storm – something in between calm and dangerous.”

— Laura Miller

6. “Dallas is a great city, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— Laura Miller

7. “The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...”

— Laura Miller

8. “Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.”

— Laura Miller

9. “A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.”

— Laura Miller

10. “Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn’t ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it’s going to be tempting, and from there it’s only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked.”

— Laura Miller

11. “Tell me you’ve seen the world. Now, you’ve come back home Tell me you’ve carried me with you, That you’ve held me close. Tell me you’ve missed me Or that I’m not crazy for waiting cause Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.”

— Laura Miller

12. “Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.”

— Laura Miller

13. “The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don’t waste a dime.”

— Laura Miller

14. “Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date – one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.”

— Laura Miller

15. “Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.”

— Laura Miller

16. “Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.”

— Laura Miller

17. “It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.”

— Laura Miller

18. “We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I’m not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I’m not so sure I’ll ever love like that again.”

— Laura Miller

19. “If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children’s books suddenly turn up very high on the list.”

— Laura Miller

20. “There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.”

— Laura Miller

21. “More than every once in awhile, More than most dreams, More than just my heart, More than anything, More than you know, And more than I can say, I’ve loved you more Every passing day.”

— Laura Miller

22. “Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.”

— Laura Miller

23. “There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can’t wait any longer for federal help.”

— Laura Miller

24. “What literature could accomplish by way of moral education was less instruction than an expansion of our capacity for empathy: “it admits us to experiences other than our own.”

— Laura Miller

25. “The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.”

— Laura Miller

26. “The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.”

— Laura Miller

27. “In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We’re still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.”

— Laura Miller

28. “The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.”

— Laura Miller

29. “Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they’d stop writing.”

— Laura Miller

30. “Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.”

— Laura Miller

31. “Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?”

— Laura Miller

32. “For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.”

— Laura Miller

33. “Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I’d become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn’t mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.”

— Laura Miller

34. “See, I’m in love with the person you can never outrun. I’m in love with you.”

— Laura Miller

35. “A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.”

— Laura Miller

36. “Maybe the story of our life is what we make of it. I mean, we’re dealt the rain and the sun, but maybe it’s up to us to push away the clouds in order to see the rainbow.”

— Laura Miller

37. “We get used to pretty... eventually, we get used to sunsets and falling stars and things that sparkle.”

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38. “Deep down, we’re all some kind of crazy, Ada.”

— Laura Miller

39. “Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a soldier who lost his leg. And I’m still convinced there’s no word out there for the feeling you get the first time you ever hit home plate or bury your first dog or muster up enough courage to tell a girl you love her.”

— Laura Miller

40. “People say birds are a bad omen. But I’m not so sure because while the only bird I ever knew tore my world in two, I loved every single moment of it. My.”

— Laura Miller

41. “I have to know if you believe in second chances – because I do, even if they do come with good-byes.”

— Laura Miller

42. “Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It’s something you always have. You just have to believe you do.”

— Laura Miller

43. “Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.”

— Laura Miller

44. “A part of me will probably always be waitin’ for her. And even when I get to the end of this life and she’s not there, I think I’ll still just wait. It’s the cruel reality of love, I think – that once you find it, it’s yours to carry. And even if you lose it and never find it back again, I think you still just keep on carrying it... and waitin’ – long after the curtain closes.”

— Laura Miller

45. “But kind of like when you move something on a wall after it’s been there for a long time, and its place is bright but everything around it is faded – that’s how I feel about her. She wasn’t there very long, but when she left, everything around her memory sort of dimmed.”

— Laura Miller

46. “Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.”

— Laura Miller