Laqueur Quotes

#1. Loving her felt like creating something. A cathedral. Spires and stained glass and bells. But she broke one window and I indiscriminately tore the whole thing down. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#2. Seeing her was a key turned in a rusty lock and now all his gears were churning. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#3. Some men can't do anything unless there's an audience." "What #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#4. Some seek the limelight and some hold the light in place #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#5. You can bury your pain or avoid it. You can tattoo over it. But you won't be free of it until you feel it. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#6. And then they were staring again. And it happened again, just as it had in the theater yesterday. Time slowed, atoms and particles separating and recombining in a secret sphere around them. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#7. I can't," he whispered, knowing he could, but wishing with every fiber of his being he didn't have to.
"You can," Will said. "You don't have to do it well. You just have to do it. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#8. I want to kiss you until I die. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#9. And every atom in her body was throwing itself on the floor in protest, beating fists and toes and yelling. Me. Want. Now. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#10. I'm feeling so much. I don't even have names for what I feel. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#11. She began to court happiness and found it a coy, elusive lover. Her tentative joy was studded with the sharp edges of broken glass and her dreams began to twinkle with it. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#12. I can't breathe without you. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#13. Time was plentiful, a spilling basket of golden minutes and hours. Time was a gift from this girl who had waited for him to find her. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#14. Uncle Erik," Jack said, appearing on the other side of the screen. "Let's go fishing."
"I can't," Erik said, his eyes closed.
"Why not?"
"Because I'm loving your aunt right now."
Jack sucked his teeth. "You can love her anytime you want."
"But I want to love her right now. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#15. The earth yawned and stretched toward the sky, rather than assaulting it. The peaks were mighty, but gentle. "Friendly, #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#16. And if it gets out later, it has major potential to bite you in the ass. Like, you could lose an entire ass cheek. None of your clothes would fit anymore. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#17. Look, no gay man is oblivious to a beautiful woman. I'm gay, I've partnered women and believe me, you feel it going on. Beauty is beauty. And straight or gay, you are immersed in this intense, artistic chemistry which is both sensual and sensory. Chemistry is chemistry. It just isn't rooted in sexual attraction. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#18. His heart full of a fierce love for this tough kid, this vulnerable boy, this magnificent sister-son given into his care. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#19. I don't know what I'd do without you.
"You'll never have to know. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#20. By 1850, the pauper funeral had become perhaps the dominant representation of that vulnerability, of the possibility of falling irrevocably from the grace of society, of exclusion from the values of one's culture. It was an image that worked on the poor; they would, as one observer put it, "sell their beds out from under them sooner than have parish funerals." Anxiety about pauper burial did not, of course, stand alone in drawing - pushing might be the better verb - the poor into industrial civilization, but ignominious burial was one of the most powerful ways in which the relationship between money and standing was made manifest, a metaphor for the meaning of consumption, a vehicle for the creation of desire that made the new economic order possible. #Quote by Thomas W. Laqueur

#21. Among a thousand other things, she loved Alex for his easy use of we. His willing, unconscious way of taking an oar at the galley of your problem, even if it was just to listen. Even if both of you knew he couldn't do jack shit to help, he made it about us and made you feel less alone. "I #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#22. This is the best thing I've ever done," he said. And he pushed into her, hungry to take the step for his own mankind. Daisy #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#23. I want to wake up every morning and listen to your heart. I want to be the last man you slept with. When you say it's been a long time since you made love, I want that time to be a matter of hours. Because I loved you last night. And I'm going to love you again tonight. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#24. Indeed her entire presence seemed confused. She walked into rooms and stopped cold, looking around like she didn't recognize her own house. She paused in the middle of a sentence, searching for a word, perplexed it wasn't there. Her eyes looked either stunned or exhausted. She held a book in her lap but turned no pages. She said she wanted to go to bed. Then she tossed and turned. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#25. A hush fell over them. For a long moment, while she was leaning her chin on her hand atop the piano lid, and his hands rested lightly on the keys, they stared at each other. The stage, the wings, the maw of the theater and its rows of seats and ornamental moldings, all receded. The air about them shimmered, drew in, coalesced into a bubble. They looked at each other, breathing together, long past a socially acceptable interval. It was far beyond the border where Erik normally would have dropped his gaze, cracked a joke or at least a smile.
She's peaceful, he thought, and her eyes widened slightly, as if she had heard him. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#26. Jav's face was numb. Fingertips ice cold. His shirt stuck to his back with sweat and every square inch o"f skin prickled and tingled. He could feel his heart breaking down, dropping off piece by piece into the rolling boil of his stomach. Every splash sending up clouds of toxic steam, choking his throat. He was sure the next words out would be inside a scream. Instead he heard a strong, calm voice - a seasoned captain taking over the helm.
"I'm with you," Jav said. "Fucking take their ship down. I'm here. Right until the end, I won't leave."

Excerpt From: Suanne Laqueur. "An Exaltation of Larks." iBooks. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#27. I only want you. No one could hold me in the dark the way you do. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#28. Like I said, my friend, she seems the type who likes to make something beautiful with her partner, rather than just be carried around and adored in the spotlight. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#29. I don't have one word for what I feel, he said. It's a thousand things at the same time. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#30. Bowl of rejection," Kees was saying. "Or bowl of regret. That's what it comes down to, those are your choices. Which will taste worse? You ask me, rejection sucks, but you can choke it down. Regret will give you food poisoning for the rest of your life. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#31. I have so much to tell you," he whispered against her face. "And not enough time."
"We have nothing but time now," she said. "Come lie down with me. Tell me everything. We'll talk forever. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#32. I don't need his love.
I don't want it. I don't want to need it. Not from him. Not from anyone.
I don't want this strangle in my chest, this heat in my belly, this agony in my bones. I don't want it. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#33. His heart expanded until he was nothing but a heart. A giant pounding heart on two shaking legs walking over to her. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#34. I love you so much," he said. But his voice was hoarse and the first two words got lost. You so much. It settled into his heart like a creed. He said it again. "You so much." She turned her head up to him. "So much you," she said. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#35. You broke and left, but then you came back. Because you were meant to be mine. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#36. The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives. #Quote by Walter Laqueur

#37. Life has rules, Val thought. And you cannot come in the middle of the night and take what we agreed isn't yours. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#38. Day One of being on the shit list." She dug her fingers into her hair, scratching vigorously. "And I haven't a thing to wear." Get #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#39. I really believe this. Souls have a purpose and their energy belongs with a certain other energy. They go where they belong. It's not random… #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#40. I'm still learning how to feel what I feel as I'm feeling it. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#41. Val sat up on her elbows and looked over the headboards between them. "Larks," she said.
Alex glanced at her with one eye. Then with both eyes. His toes curled tight in his wool socks as he answered, "Exaltation. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#42. You're the best thing to ever happen to me twice. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#43. The falseness of the seventeenth century became a large measure of the truth by the nineteenth. Money made the man, or at least went a long way toward doing so; and death became the occasion for a final accounting, a stocktaking of worldly success. Of course, there were other metrics: virtue, martyrdom, political standing, fraternal ties. But it took money to publicize them. The funeral became more and more a standardized commodity whose cost could be matched with exquisite precision to the class and degree of 'respectability' of the deceased. When one bought a funeral, one bought a more or less splendid parade, each additional bauble, each horse, each feather or set of nails adding to the base price. Bit by bit, finery accumulated, and by looking at the account books of an undertaker who specialized in pauper funerals, we can begin to see the bounds of decency in death. #Quote by Thomas W. Laqueur

#44. You haven't seen your father since you were eight?'
He shook his head.
'No word. No contact. No nothing?'
'Nothing.'
Daisy's eyes looked right and left before coming back to his. 'Is he alive?'
Erik turned looked into the blue-green eyes studying him so intently. He was surprised he had revealed this to someone he barely knew. Normally this was the card he kept closest to his chest. Yet something about Daisy looking at him, her expression calm and interested, sympathetic but not pitying, tactfully curious, seemed to be reaching into the tangle of emotions comprising the experience of being so cruelly deserted, and gently drawing out a thread. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#45. I could never hate you. But now I can never love you. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#46. Unlike the made and broken promises of love, the transactions of employment were absolute. "Love's #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#47. A bittersweet truth: she wasn't anyone's baby anymore. She'd been left bereft. Her value diminished. She was poor. Alex #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#48. Some seek the light and hold the light in place. Erik Fiskare didn't like being the center of attention, but he liked situations where he had to keep the attention centered. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#49. Fuck everything else," they whispered. "I just need you. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#50. Maybe that's life. Trading in one tragedy for a better tragedy. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#51. to become a parent was to go around with your heart flayed open for the rest of your life. Moving the earth and giving your best for your kids, with no guarantee your best would be enough to keep them safe. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#52. Looking back was like flipping through a scrapbook underwater, a blurred collection of mementos stretching from May to August. Washed-out sepia tones. Pages stuck together, melding days into weeks. Weeks into months. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#53. You're sparse." "Sparse?" "You're rake thin with obese emotions." His #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#54. How many times did you have to take a guy's hand and tell him, "Dude, it's right here." If he had that kind of learning disability in sports, he'd be a bench decoration. She #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#55. People like you and me, we have too many nerves and not enough skin. That's the issue. Too many nerves. Not enough skin. We feel things straight to our bones. We're radar dishes. We take in everything and we feel everything. We feel pain that doesn't even belong to us. We are the animal shelter of feelings. We rescue everything. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#56. He smiled like the sunrise, mouth stretching to show his teeth, cheekbones lifting to narrow his brown eyes. Their color made her think of the honey her mother drizzled into a shot of cognac - the Bianco cure-all for head colds and heartache. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#57. She smiled back at him. Neither of them had said so much as hello yet she was looking at him with those eyes. Deep in the cathedral of his young being, Erik felt a bell toll, a peal of recognition. And for the rest of his life, he would swear, he would swear to anyone who asked, although nothing was said aloud, he heard Daisy Bianco speak to him. She said it with her eyes, he heard it clearly in his head, and it wasn't hello.
It was, 'Well, here you are...'
Here I am, he thought. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#58. Love can bring out the best and worst in us. We've all been a jackass for love. But love makes us do amazing things. And if love drives us away, love is what brings us back. Love makes us pick up the phone. Love makes us listen. Love makes us say I'm sorry. Love makes us forgive. Love makes us better. Love makes us our best. And love makes more love... #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#59. He wanted all of her. Her thoughts, her words, her silences and her stillness. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#60. Leaving isn't always the end of loving. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#61. At some point you just gotta start living the truth of who you are and what you feel. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#62. Invisible fingers had reached into her mind that day, found the flame of memory and pinched it out. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#63. I want you so much," he said against her mouth.
"You know I've never-"
"I know, he said. "You said you were waiting for the one."
"I think I was waiting for you. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#64. Whatever you have, you give it to me. Whatever you put in my way, I will move it. I'm not afraid of anything you show me. I'll never leave you. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#65. To paraphrase Walter Laqueur, a pioneer in the study of the Allies' response to the Holocaust, although many people thought that the Jews were no longer alive, they did not necessarily believe they were dead.18 #Quote by Samantha Power

#66. He new it frustrated her that he had dehydrated parts of his heart so thoroughly, no amount of drenching love and affection could revive them. #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#67. Love came from all directions. On paper, on screens, in dishes and words and deeds.
We're thinking of you every minute.
I'm sorry.
We're sorry.
We're so sorry… #Quote by Suanne Laqueur

#68. No matter what you do, be excellent at it." Rafael #Quote by Suanne Laqueur