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Top 30 Laura Taylor Namey Quotes (2025 Update)

Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Holding a real book is like holding something alive. There’s the grit of the pages between your fingers as you turn them. The edges get soft and worn. With a real book, you feel the weight of the story more.”

1. “Holding a real book is like holding something alive. There’s the grit of the pages between your fingers as you turn them. The edges get soft and worn. With a real book, you feel the weight of the story more.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “So I wanted you to choose a future that’s first and foremost yours alone. Not to belong to me. I want you to belong with me.”

2. “So I wanted you to choose a future that’s first and foremost yours alone. Not to belong to me. I want you to belong with me.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “You’re painting stars where I colored black holes.”

3. “You’re painting stars where I colored black holes.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Thing is, when you put something back together it’s never exactly the same as it was before.”

4. “Thing is, when you put something back together it’s never exactly the same as it was before.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I’ve made this deal with the universe. I’ve learned not to ask more of it than what I’m given, both good and bad.”

5. “I’ve made this deal with the universe. I’ve learned not to ask more of it than what I’m given, both good and bad.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “She forgets that what she does in one small moment can affect tomorrow.”

6. “She forgets that what she does in one small moment can affect tomorrow.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “So much is goodbye and fleeting in my life. I’m losing people and I’m so tired of that feeling.”

7. “So much is goodbye and fleeting in my life. I’m losing people and I’m so tired of that feeling.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I’ve never considered any book, especially a novel or work of literature, something you should ‘plow through.’ The whole point of reading is savor ing the story, immersing your self in a whole new place. Maybe one that doesn’t even exist.”

8. “I’ve never considered any book, especially a novel or work of literature, something you should ‘plow through.’ The whole point of reading is savor ing the story, immersing your self in a whole new place. Maybe one that doesn’t even exist.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Speed-reading just squashes the whole experience. You miss detail and pacing, and everything the author intended you to feel in the first place.”

9. “Speed-reading just squashes the whole experience. You miss detail and pacing, and everything the author intended you to feel in the first place.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “It was the small time between sunset and evening when the sky turned the color of crushed plums, bruised from the wounds of another day.”

10. “It was the small time between sunset and evening when the sky turned the color of crushed plums, bruised from the wounds of another day.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “As a result, toasting somebody with water is considered the same as wishing them and yourself bad luck, or even death.”

11. “As a result, toasting somebody with water is considered the same as wishing them and yourself bad luck, or even death.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control.”

12. “I’ve grown to find peace and acceptance in not fighting what I can’t control.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I like strong words that mean something.”

13. “I like strong words that mean something.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Impossible. I’d heard this word before and pounded it like a hard coconut shell. Then I used the rich, white flesh to make a cake.”

14. “Impossible. I’d heard this word before and pounded it like a hard coconut shell. Then I used the rich, white flesh to make a cake.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I hold back too and remain like the last-minute toppings of things. My stories are dusted powdered sugar and mango glaze. I can’t tell my friend about the thick, bittersweet fillings of castles and vanilla black tea, or the rich, spongy cake of new friends and songs. I can’t talk about the motorbike wind and green and stone I baked into crusty bread and into the baker.”

15. “I hold back too and remain like the last-minute toppings of things. My stories are dusted powdered sugar and mango glaze. I can’t tell my friend about the thick, bittersweet fillings of castles and vanilla black tea, or the rich, spongy cake of new friends and songs. I can’t talk about the motorbike wind and green and stone I baked into crusty bread and into the baker.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “No. It’s not bad at all.” The words rush out of me, outrunning countless Miami echoes and Cuban roots, and everything I packed in my bag for this cold, foreign place. It’s entirely true. I’m wearing his sweater and it’s okay and a new kind of good that I’m starting to wear his city, too.”

16. “No. It’s not bad at all.” The words rush out of me, outrunning countless Miami echoes and Cuban roots, and everything I packed in my bag for this cold, foreign place. It’s entirely true. I’m wearing his sweater and it’s okay and a new kind of good that I’m starting to wear his city, too.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment.” The moment we cheated worlds and lives and universes for.”

17. “It’s just too bloody hard. For now, let our time here be our moment.” The moment we cheated worlds and lives and universes for.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “The difference between him her and the other girls at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to her make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.” Sometimes you can’t see where make-believe ends and true starts. And sometimes you can, and you cry. – J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, and Peter Pan Mystery Scribbler.”

18. “The difference between him her and the other girls at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to her make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.” Sometimes you can’t see where make-believe ends and true starts. And sometimes you can, and you cry. – J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan, and Peter Pan Mystery Scribbler.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Sometimes you need to do more for yourself than just manage.”

19. “Sometimes you need to do more for yourself than just manage.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like.”

20. “I know what it feels like to fall in love. But I’m not sure what falling out of love feels like.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “And pick up my own.”

21. “And pick up my own.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “You found me,” I say. I lost you.”

22. “You found me,” I say. I lost you.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Why did I think my half-lying plan would be different just because I was genuinely trying to help someone?”

23. “Why did I think my half-lying plan would be different just because I was genuinely trying to help someone?”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Will you fly with me?”

24. “Will you fly with me?”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Another wish I can’t even trust the stars with. What language do I use to wish for continents and cultures to bend?”

25. “Another wish I can’t even trust the stars with. What language do I use to wish for continents and cultures to bend?”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “But after so many years, I knew what to do with hope. I held it an arm’s length away.”

26. “But after so many years, I knew what to do with hope. I held it an arm’s length away.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Mami never went to college, but she majored in drama, anyway, with a minor in extra. She also majored in doing the opposite of what’s best for me.”

27. “Mami never went to college, but she majored in drama, anyway, with a minor in extra. She also majored in doing the opposite of what’s best for me.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “You’re like all the places I want to fly to.”

28. “You’re like all the places I want to fly to.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “It’s everything new around me and it’s happening more and more. Happening right now – a Miami girl in an English club listening to an English band, sitting on an English boy’s lap, his sweater warm around me. And I can’t help but enjoy it for real.”

29. “It’s everything new around me and it’s happening more and more. Happening right now – a Miami girl in an English club listening to an English band, sitting on an English boy’s lap, his sweater warm around me. And I can’t help but enjoy it for real.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “I know I’ll keep some of my mates forever.” Her blue eyes meet mine- thoughtful the vibrant, just like her music. “But there are others I don’t see much anymore, and I’ve realized that’s okay.” She smiles pensively. “Sometimes I put them into songs, and that’s where I keep them. Plus, there’s always room for new friends.”

30. “I know I’ll keep some of my mates forever.” Her blue eyes meet mine- thoughtful the vibrant, just like her music. “But there are others I don’t see much anymore, and I’ve realized that’s okay.” She smiles pensively. “Sometimes I put them into songs, and that’s where I keep them. Plus, there’s always room for new friends.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Like the word “heart” can live as two forces at once – the one that beats and the one that feels – so can we.”

31. “Like the word “heart” can live as two forces at once – the one that beats and the one that feels – so can we.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “His are large and ocean-deep enough to draw me in for drowning, his own siren song. This black suited boy hugs me again.”

32. “His are large and ocean-deep enough to draw me in for drowning, his own siren song. This black suited boy hugs me again.”

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Laura Taylor Namey Quote: “Claro, I’m still the girl carrying a trifecta of loss. I always will be. But as I wander along the pavement, I’m just a seventeen-year-old on her way to buy ingredients for Cuban flan. And that feels like the best part of home.”

33. “Claro, I’m still the girl carrying a trifecta of loss. I always will be. But as I wander along the pavement, I’m just a seventeen-year-old on her way to buy ingredients for Cuban flan. And that feels like the best part of home.”

— Laura Taylor Namey

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