Laura Ruby Quotes

God will break California from the surface of the continent like someone breaking off a piece of chocolate. It will become its own floating paradise of underweight movie stars and dot-commers, like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi.

~ Laura Ruby

She got icing all over her face. I think that's why I like her. For the good stuff, she's willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn't want a girl like that?

~ Laura Ruby

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he'd asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like 'Clocks don't melt!' But, lucky for us, Salvador didn't care what anyone else thought. You use what moves you.

~ Laura Ruby

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. How would you know?

~ Laura Ruby

In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.

~ Laura Ruby

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

~ Laura Ruby

Love the people who love you back.

~ Laura Ruby

She's still small and I still want to put her in my pocket.-Seven Chillman, classmate

~ Laura Ruby

You're only hurting yourself. Besides, the citizens like blood, don't they? They smell it.

~ Laura Ruby