11 Quotes & Sayings By Laura Thalassa

Laura Thalassa is the author of the critically acclaimed, bestselling novel "The Secret Daughter." Her second novel, "A Fine Romance," was released by Delacorte Press in June 2011. Her third novel, "The Thaw," was released on January 9, 2012. She received the Lawrence Award for Fiction for her first book. The New York Times has called her writing “so compelling, so utterly real it’s hard to believe it’s fiction.” A native of Texas, she currently resides in New York City with her husband.

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When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all. Laura Thalassa
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War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them. Laura Thalassa
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Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep. Laura Thalassa
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This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach. Laura Thalassa
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You want to see compassion? Fine." I take the hand pressed against my shoulders and kiss his knuckles. "I've now kissed the hand of my mother's killer." Before he has time to react to my chaste kiss, I bring my other hand up and slap him. His head whips to the side." I'm also a vindictive bitch, " I say. Laura Thalassa
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I’ll be at your side, till the darkness dies. Laura Thalassa
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If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him. Laura Thalassa
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I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn't know it, but all his cracks align with mine. Laura Thalassa
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So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly. Laura Thalassa
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This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not tomention he was older than Father Time. So why was Ifalling for him, falling for him when I couldn’t help butpush everyone else away? It frightened me to feel thisway, yet I couldn’t stop this and didn’t want to. Laura Thalassa