Laura Lee Quotes

Fact: More people are killed each year by teddy bears than by grizzly bears.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.

There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win the game.

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?”For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime.”I can live with that, ” he said, and kissed her.

We’re your friends. Our job is to tease you mercilessly about your foibles, rag you about your upright, honorable nature, and point out to you when you’re being a complete dolt.

Pardon me for not being willing to commit my entire future to you based on two kisses and a blueberry muffin.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

K.I.S.SKeep. It. Simple. Stupid.

No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.

It's like she wears an "I'm-always-happy" mask. I used to play along.

Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.