5 Quotes & Sayings By Laura Moriarty

Laura Moriarty is the New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer, the first in the Wall Street Journal Bestselling series. She is also the author of The Perfect Mother, which was a New York Times bestseller, and winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages. Her work has been featured by USA Today, Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Self, Shape, Shape+, Marie Claire UK, & more Read more

Laura writes full-time from her home in Austin, Texas.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally,...
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You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back Laura Moriarty
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That's what spending time with the young can do -- it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend, and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through. Laura Moriarty
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Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn, craves something else. With every generation the pendulum swings from opposite to opposite, stillness and peace so elusive. Laura Moriarty
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Worrying was painful. ... but compared to the alternative, a privilege Laura Moriarty