Top 90 Lauren Myracle Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.”

— Lauren Myracle

2. “Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.”

— Lauren Myracle

3. “We all mess up. It’s what we learn from our mistakes that matters.”

— Lauren Myracle

4. “Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.”

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5. “If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they’d be.”

— Lauren Myracle

6. “What is ‘power’ anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.”

— Lauren Myracle

7. “You should eat a waffle! You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle!”

— Lauren Myracle

8. “We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we’ve all made mistakes. You’ve just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.”

— Lauren Myracle

9. “You will love the ocean. It makes you feel so... I don’t know. Small, but not in a bad way. Small because you realize you’re part of something bigger.”

— Lauren Myracle

10. “I know I deserve nothing, but if you want me I’m yours.”

— Lauren Myracle

11. “It’s unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.”

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12. “You’ve been moping around for too long... It’s time you grew into your next self.”

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13. “When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain’t right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it. -Sheriff Andy Taylor.”

— Lauren Myracle

14. “Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it’s because we’re too wrapped up in our own problems.”

— Lauren Myracle

15. “One: Don’t play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don’t pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life.”

— Lauren Myracle

16. “Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.”

— Lauren Myracle

17. “You should be out stirring up trouble with your friends, not bothering with all them books you read. You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.”

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18. “My angel-boy is close now, as in five-feet-away close. There’s no way I’m going to burst into song in front of him. But then the contrary part of me says, you’re going to let a boy keep you from singing out loud? Sing, sister! Sing! So I do, and my angel-boy turns his head.”

— Lauren Myracle

19. “I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.”

— Lauren Myracle

20. “Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn’t hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn’t happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.”

— Lauren Myracle

21. “I’m sick of all the pressure. I’m sick of feeling like I’ll ruin all their happiness if I don’t do what they want me to do.”

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22. “Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don’t turn into that grown-up who they won’t come to.”

— Lauren Myracle

23. “If you love someone, you should be willing to show it. This is our one shot at life.”

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24. “Christmas is never over, unless you want it to be.”

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25. “People change for each other all the time. Take any love story, any great love story at all, and you’ll see that people have to be willing to change if they’re going to make things work out. Like Shrek, when Fiona tells Shrek that she’s sick of his burping and farting and everything. And Shrek’s like, ‘I’m an ogre. Deal with it.’ And Fiona says, ‘What if I can’t?’ So Shrek takes that potion that turns him into a hunky prince. He does it out of love for Fiona.”

— Lauren Myracle

26. “Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall close the door of the mighty Starbucks.”

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27. “There’s something strange about this big pink bunny...”

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28. “Cats and dogs are said to be sworn enemies, but I don’t believe it. I think we get to choose our enemies, just like we choose our friends.”

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29. “I’m afraid that you’re leaving me, so i’m leaving you first.”

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30. “But he thought that if the world was layered with meaning, then she was the evidence, right here.”

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31. “They’re not chicks. They’re ducks.”

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32. “Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it’s because we’re too wrapped up in our own problems. When actually, what we need to forget is ourselves. Change is healthy, right?”

— Lauren Myracle

33. “If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.”

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34. “My tears were hot and salty, and I imagine them melting my heart.”

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35. “He wouldn’t have seen the wolf in redneck clothing.”

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36. “It’s what you feel, and guess what? Feelings are like three-year-olds. They’re not rational. They’re just there.”

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37. “I didn’t like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that’s all. Or so I’d convinced myself.”

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38. “I feel like a three-dimensional girl in a two-dimensional world.”

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39. “We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we’ve all made mistakes.”

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40. “I’m in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don’t give up on ’em, mo matter what.”

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41. “Being an author of banned books is cool, I’ve decided.”

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42. “I think that ties in with issues of identity as well – that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there’s other times we say, “You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part.””

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43. “And they all have pretty chilrden, And the children go to school, And the children to go summer camp, And then to the university, Where they are put in bozes And they come out all the same. – Malvina Reynolds.”

— Lauren Myracle

44. “Charlie... I can’t go out with you if I’m in love with someone else. Even if he no longer wants me.”

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45. “Can you just trust in our love, without asking me to prove it every single second?”

— Lauren Myracle

46. “And books are such an empowering way to give voice to some of these kids who aren’t yet ready to tell their story. Or don’t know what their story is, or are trying to figure it out.”

— Lauren Myracle

47. “Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.”

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48. “She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her... but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...”

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49. “That’s Chinese, not Japanese.”

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50. “Hey. What is it that famous person said? ‘It’ll all work out in the end, and if it doesn’t, that means it’s not the end yet’?”

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