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Lauren Groff Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“There is little that a puppy won’t fix, even if the fix is for a short time.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Puppies, Dogs, How To Be Happy
“They step into each other and it’s hard to tell where one begins and one ends: hands in hair and warmth on warmth.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Making Love
“Lotto’s heart kicked froglike in his chest; sweeping toward him in her brilliant blue skirt, Mathilde. His azure lion rampant. Her long hair plaited down her left breast, she, the nexus of all the good of this world.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Azure, Feeling of love
“The word wife comes from the Proto-Indo-European weip. Weip means to turn, twist, or wrap. In an alternative etymology, the word wife comes from Proto-etc., ghwibh. Ghwibh means pudenda. Or shame.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Wife, End Marriage, Wipe, Etymology, Word Origins
“He looked at her thoughtfully, gently bit the tip of her nose. He had loved her with all his might these two weeks and, in so loving, had considered her transparent, a plate of glass. He could see through to the goodness at her quick. But glass is fragile, he would have to be careful.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Love
“A thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain’s sudden sweeping.”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: first lines of books
“I will never be old. I will never be sad. I’d scarf a cyanide capsule first. Life isn’t worth living unless you are young and surrounded by other young people in a beautiful cold garden perfumed by dirt and flowers and fallen leaves, gleaming in the string of lights, listening to the quiet city on the last fine night of the year.’”
— Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies: A Novel
Tagged: Age, Young People, Die Young, Never Get Old, Peter Pan Syndrome
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