01UndatedLife didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.Laura Miller / quote ↗
02UndatedFire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.Laura Miller / quote ↗
03UndatedI just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.Laura Miller / quote ↗
04UndatedLittle girl, little boyIf love has a wayFill their fields with laughterAnd scatter the sun on their dayAnd if it should happen to rainMake their raindrops kissesStraight from heaven aboveThat touch their hands and facesAnd that fill them with loveAnd make the moon reflect their smilesAnd their stars plentyAnd, above all, keep them togetherAnd hold them as you mayForever and everUntil their last day.Laura Miller / quote ↗
05UndatedDesperation 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.Laura Miller / quote ↗
07UndatedBecause I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawnLaura Miller / quote ↗
08UndatedMaybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.Laura Miller / quote ↗
09Undatedbecause we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highlyLaura Miller / quote ↗
10UndatedThere is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not dare to put it beyond the pale.Laura Miller / quote ↗
11UndatedI can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer produces a genie when rubbed and the latter realizes he has nothing left to wish for.Laura Miller / quote ↗
12UndatedI can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with magic” because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.Laura Miller / quote ↗
13UndatedJust remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.Laura Miller / quote ↗
14UndatedTell me you’ve seen the world.Now, you’ve come back homeTell me you’ve carried me with you,That you’ve held me close.Tell me you’ve missed meOr that I’m not crazy for waiting causeOf all the butterflies that chose to stay,I’m in love with the one that got awayLaura Miller / quote ↗
15UndatedMore than every once in awhile,More than most dreams,More than just my heart,More than anything,More than you know,And more than I can say,I’ve loved you moreEvery passing dayLaura Miller / quote ↗
16UndatedNow, you and I both know that I’ll wait a lifetime for you – remember, Butterfly Weeds never give up – so take your time down there. And tonight, as you watch that big, orange sun disappear into the earth and your world gradually grow dark, I’ll help God turn on the stars, and I’ll wait for my dawn – when you return to me, Julia Stephens.I love you, My Butterfly. You’ll always be my endless song.Love always and forever,Your one and only Butterfly Weed, WillLaura Miller / quote ↗
17UndatedHow does the story really go?Does she ever cross your mind?Does she ever steal your nights?Is she still a part of you?Do you ever wish she were still by your side?And what would you do?If she walked up here tomorrow And told you that she loved you?Would you drop it all and run to her?Would you tell her you love her too?Or would you simply send her home?And tell her you’ve moved on?Tell me, Buddy, what would you do?Laura Miller / quote ↗
18UndatedBrooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.Laura Miller / quote ↗
