Laura Miller Quotes

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

Desperation will drive you to do things you know will never make you whole again and even to lose the very thing you’re desperate for.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

I gave him a piece of my heart a long time ago, and once you give that away, I’ve learned you don’t so easily get it back.

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

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

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