18 Quotes & Sayings By Leslye Walton

Leslye Walton is a writer, editor, and public relations consultant. She has been writing professionally since she was 13 years old, and has been working as an editor and publicist for nearly as long. In spite of her 12-year career as a PR professional, she continues to write fiction, poems, and short stories. In addition to writing, Leslye also serves as the director of the internationally acclaimed author's workshop, Write or Die Read more

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two children.

Love makes us such fools.
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Love makes us such fools. Leslye Walton
Just because love don't look the way you think it...
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Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it. Leslye Walton
She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had...
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She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place. Leslye Walton
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
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Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. Leslye Walton
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To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. Leslye Walton
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Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people Leslye Walton
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Folks around here like to say we came from the stars. Perhaps it's simpler to think of us not as human but as creatures made of stardust--that if you cut us, not blood but constellations will pour from out wounds. Leslye Walton
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The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces. Leslye Walton
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Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage. Leslye Walton
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She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see. Leslye Walton
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She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved. Leslye Walton
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Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky... I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark. Leslye Walton
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The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest. Leslye Walton
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I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark. Leslye Walton
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Because I'm your mother, that's why. Leslye Walton
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But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not. Leslye Walton
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The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children. Leslye Walton