Top 90 Lauren Myracle Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Wally was worse than any fairy-tale witch, and his trailer wasn’t made of candy.”

— Lauren Myracle

52. “Sometimes the things we hide – aren’t they the parts of us that matter most?”

— Lauren Myracle

53. “I suppose she’s right. It’s like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can’t resist opening the door ayway. We can’t keep from hoping.”

— Lauren Myracle

54. “And you’re figuring out who you are, and you haven’t yet become stagnant in your thinking. You haven’t solidified. And one thing that I find is that a lot of grown-ups tend to look back on their high school or middle school years and say, “Oh, thank God all that’s over.””

— Lauren Myracle

55. “I’m a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.”

— Lauren Myracle

56. “You know it’s them books what make you talk funny.”

— Lauren Myracle

57. “Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.”

— Lauren Myracle

58. “The best thing you can do is find someone who loves you when you’re pretty, when you’re ugly, when you’re mad, when you’re happy. Someone who, no matter what, is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass.”

— Lauren Myracle

59. “It was almost pleasant, in a life-sucks-but-at-least-there’s-good-music sort of way.”

— Lauren Myracle

60. “Also, as an author, character has always been what I’m most interested in – much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.”

— Lauren Myracle

61. “You’ve just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.”

— Lauren Myracle

62. “He leaned in and kissed her, because now that he knew he could, he planned on kissing her every chance he got.”

— Lauren Myracle

63. “But you have to live in the present. You have to take the old and make it new – that’s my point.”

— Lauren Myracle

64. “Curse false-hand-holding boys!”

— Lauren Myracle

65. “You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook – I get so many of those emails that talk about hard times that kids have gone through, how books have helped them, but also happy times.”

— Lauren Myracle

66. “So as a seventh grader, no, you weren’t friends with people you didn’t like. But sometimes you also weren’t friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn’t make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That’s where the sadness came in.”

— Lauren Myracle

67. “Feelings are like three-year-olds. They’re not rational. They’re just there.”

— Lauren Myracle

68. “If she did see, I hoped she’ be amazed. Amazed and thankful, because without even asking, she’d received a genuine autograph from a genuine girl from Atlanta. Not just any girl, but a girl who was, frankly, a pretty big deal. A girl who was me.”

— Lauren Myracle

69. “It’s not what the universe gives us that matters. It’s what we give the universe.”

— Lauren Myracle

70. “Night had fallen, and the first stars had winked their way into existence, twinkling against a palette of inky purples, deep reds, and one last slice of pearly, light-infused blue.”

— Lauren Myracle

71. “But sometimes I need someone to shine a little light on me, too.”

— Lauren Myracle

72. “In galactic terms, four years is but a nano-second.”

— Lauren Myracle

73. “I don’t mean to be cold... But sometimes I need someone to shine a light on me, too.”

— Lauren Myracle

74. “It seemed like a lifetime ago.”

— Lauren Myracle

75. “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets her wings.”

— Lauren Myracle

76. “Enough with the angel bit,” I said. “I’m not kidding. If the universe gave me you as my angel, then I deserve a refund.”

— Lauren Myracle

77. “Well, it’s a heck of a lot better than a broken hallelujah. And also, Please, God, I sure could use some grace.”

— Lauren Myracle

78. “I‘m going to kiss you now,” I warned him, since I knew how he felt about being mushy in public.”

— Lauren Myracle

79. “Adeline, you make things so much harder for yourself than you have to,” she said. “Silly girl, it’s not what the universe gives us that matters. It’s what we give the universe.”

— Lauren Myracle

80. “You obliterated me.”

— Lauren Myracle

81. “I don’t think you could possibly be boring, even if you tried.”

— Lauren Myracle

82. “It’s a program called “Angels Among Us,” she said. “I don’t have to get a degree or anything.”

— Lauren Myracle

83. “Rufus Wainwright’s cover of “Hallelujah.”

— Lauren Myracle

84. “Only Christmas is over, and there were no angels.”

— Lauren Myracle

85. “You’ve got this light about you. You make people feel special like maybe there’s a light in them too.”

— Lauren Myracle

86. “But what that means, sadly is that he has no depth. He’s never had to work for anything in his life.”

— Lauren Myracle

87. “It’s The Addie Show all over again. Every channel, every network.”

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88. “As I listened to the lyrics – truly listened, instead of just letting them float over me – the almost-pleasant feelings went away. I’d always thought this was an inspirational song about God or something, because of all the hallelujahs. Only it turned out there were words before and after the hallelujahs, and those words were hardly uplifting.”

— Lauren Myracle

89. “You said you’ve changed... But I’m just wondering if you really have. If you’ve, you know, looked inside yourself to figure out what you need to change.”

— Lauren Myracle

90. “We go to the same school. The same small school. Surely it would be hard to ignore someone in a school that small.”

— Lauren Myracle

91. “Then I noticed his rising blush, and I realized something. Tobin and Angie... their togetherness was new. New enough that being touched by her still came as a glorious, blush-worthy surprise.”

— Lauren Myracle

92. “I was going for flirtatious, along the lines of the scene in Jerry Maguire when Renee Zellweger told Tom Cruise, “You had me at hello.”

— Lauren Myracle

93. “Stuart Weintraub was not only without Chloe, but also without sad Stuart eyes!”

— Lauren Myracle

94. “By six-thirty, the sun was officially on the rise, it was pretty. I suppose, if you liked that sort of thing. Fresh starts, new beginnings, the warming rays of hope.”

— Lauren Myracle

95. “It’s a Wonderful Life movie.”

— Lauren Myracle

96. “And now... here I was. I stood by my bedroom window, watching Dorrie and Tegan growing smaller and smaller. The moonlight made the snow look silver – all that snow – and just looking at it made me cold.”

— Lauren Myracle

97. “His happiness made him look super cute, too.”

— Lauren Myracle