Top 50 Laura Ruby Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Compose a haiku in honor of a person you admire. You are spiky spring, humming summer, wings that beat back ghosts of winter.”

— Laura Ruby

2. “In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.”

— Laura Ruby

3. “She had become unmoored from the present, loose and untethered, her mind rolling back into her memories, rolling forward into the future, anticipating, and then dropping again into this torturous, unbearable present.”

— Laura Ruby

4. “Every little decision you made, every person you met could change your life, set it on a different course, or end it.”

— Laura Ruby

5. “Is your work finished or is it just due?”

— Laura Ruby

6. “I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn’t always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.”

— Laura Ruby

7. “Funny how you notice how beautiful things are just when you’re about to leave them.”

— Laura Ruby

8. “Nothing is funny about war. But one must find reasons to laugh anyways, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that” -Sister Bert.”

— Laura Ruby

9. “There will be boys who will tell you you’re beautiful, but only a few will see you.”

— Laura Ruby

10. “People say the word ‘nice’ and they mean ‘boring.’ A lot of times nice is boring. But that’s not what I mean. Roza was nice and not boring at all.”

— Laura Ruby

11. “Because we don’t have your typical gaps around here. Not gaps made of rocks or mountains. We have gaps in the world. In the space of things. So many places to lose yourself, if you believe that they’re there. You can slip into the gap and never find your way out. Or maybe you don’t want to find your way out.”

— Laura Ruby

12. “It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can’t feed you. And you’ll never be pretty enough for some people.”

— Laura Ruby

13. “I’m not going to ask for your forgiveness, because you only ask for that if you think you’re doing something wrong. I don’t care what anyone says, this isn’t wrong” -Loretta.”

— Laura Ruby

14. “The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.”

— Laura Ruby

15. “But wasn’t that love? Seeing what no one else could?”

— Laura Ruby

16. “Scarecrows weren’t meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?”

— Laura Ruby

17. “He was tired of everyone believing they knew everything there was to know about him, as if a person never grew, a person never changed, a person was born a weird and dreamy little kid with too-red lips and stayed that way forever just to keep things simple for everyone else.”

— Laura Ruby

18. “Thinking that you can’t protect the ones you love, you have to hope they’re smart enough to save themselves.”

— Laura Ruby

19. “Finn drifted around, rootless and aimless as dandelion fluff in the wind.”

— Laura Ruby

20. “You’re only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don’t they? They smell it.”

— Laura Ruby

21. “He preferred her barefoot, he said. She had such lovely feet. Roza didn’t agree. What was lovely about feet that could not take you anywhere? What was lovely about feet that could not run?”

— Laura Ruby

22. “I’m sorry,′ Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn’t let it go.”

— Laura Ruby

23. “There’s always a fire.”

— Laura Ruby

24. “I’ve never understood why people choose to do the things that are hardest for them.”

— Laura Ruby

25. “She had no intention of breaking anyone’s heart, except maybe her own.”

— Laura Ruby

26. “The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does. – ANONYMOUS.”

— Laura Ruby

27. “Mean as yellow jackets, dumb as dirt. He sighed, the sharp exhale like the hiss of the plants all around.”

— Laura Ruby

28. “He says the scarecrows – ” – weren’t made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn.”

— Laura Ruby

29. “It was his favorite part of the afternoon, or should have been: the sun bright and hot in the sky, the plants twitching their green fingers.”

— Laura Ruby

30. “And I was thinking that it was so weird that the world could keep turning. I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.”

— Laura Ruby

31. “Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn’t afraid of anything.”

— Laura Ruby

32. “The two of them hiding behind their mother tongues as if there was no way to bridge the gap.”

— Laura Ruby

33. “They were better, even angry Honorata. Roza could have been any of them, every one of them. The story hadn’t changed. Only the costumes. Only the players.”

— Laura Ruby

34. “The rage melted like snow in the sun.”

— Laura Ruby

35. “People look, they don’t see.”

— Laura Ruby

36. “Trying to get a handle on what he thought, what he felt, what he thought about what he felt and vice versa, was like trying to open a locked door by ramming it with his head.”

— Laura Ruby

37. “She pretended his eyes weren’t scouring her up and down, steel wool scraping her skin raw. Her.”

— Laura Ruby

38. “You’re a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.”

— Laura Ruby

39. “I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can’t. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.”

— Laura Ruby

40. “She clenched the blanket in her fist, and sighed, and breathed his name, and if she hasn’t said it out load, he wouldn’t have known what to call himself, because everything was her.”

— Laura Ruby

41. “I’d rather tell you about a new horse, a forest of glass, and a long good night.”

— Laura Ruby

42. “I’d be okay with that kind of trouble,” Amber said, as a pair of flannel-clad farm boys headed toward them.”

— Laura Ruby

43. “All five of them were short and bowlegged, making them look like a chorus line of wishbones.”

— Laura Ruby

44. “She was sorry she hadn’t been braver when she’d had the chance.”

— Laura Ruby

45. “God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi.”

— Laura Ruby

46. “If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.”

— Laura Ruby

47. “According to my mother, no book is only a book. A book can improve your mind or it can break it.”

— Laura Ruby

48. “Hoping so hard that there was one boy out there who wanted you as much as you wanted him, because you wouldn’t know what you would do with yourself if this were not true.”

— Laura Ruby

49. “Once I’d confessed to my own mother that I thought God was a woman, because who but a woman would care so much about the oceans and the plants and the animals, who but a woman could build a whole world in seven days? ” -Guardian.”

— Laura Ruby

50. “You will see the world. You will have love affairs with boys who see past a pretty face. You will be strong. You will call and tell me about it.”

— Laura Ruby