1.
Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.
Laurel Lea
2.
...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.
Laurel Lea
3.
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
Laurel Lea
4.
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
Laurel Lea
5.
It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.
Laurel Lea
6.
When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.
Laurel Lea
7.
The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.
Laurel Lea
8.
Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.
Laurel Lea
9.
Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.
Laurel Lea
10.
I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.
Laurel Lea
11.
Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.
Laurel Lea
12.
(Home) is you in things.
Laurel Lea
13.
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.
Laurel Lea