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“Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on his skinny hip.
"No, sir," David said. "But thank you for asking." The students around them laughed, but Mr. james didn't look pleased. Laurel leaned back and grinned. David, one. Teacher who wishes he was as smart as David? Zero”
Source: Wings
“Laurel had been thinking a lot lately about secrets, about how difficult they were to keep, and the habit they had of lurking quietly beneath the surface before sneaking all of a sudden through a crack in their keeper's resolve.”
Source: The Secret Keeper
“Laurel had one thousand year-round residents and our share of bar fights, car accidents, marital disputes, and an occasional breaking and entering. What we didn't have were missing teenage girls.”
Source: The Ruins of Woodman's Village
“Laurel had watched him prune. Holding the shears in both hands, he performed a sort of weighty sarabande, with a lop for this side, then a lop for the other side, as though he were bowing to his partner, and left the bush looking like a puzzle.”
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“Laurel lifted his chin until their faces were even. Tamani closed his eyes and she could feel his jaw trembling under her hands. She brushed her lips over his, reveling in the velvety softness of his mouth against hers. When he didn’t pull away, she pressed more firmly, knowing, somehow, that she had to move slowly, convince his tattered soul so carefully that she meant every word.
‘I love you. And I’m asking you...’ She opened her mouth slightly and gently scraped her teeth along his bottom lip, feeling his whole body shudder. ‘No,’ she amended, ‘I’m begging you, to come be with me.’ And she pressed her mouth against his and murmured, ‘Forever.’
For a few seconds he didn’t respond.
Then a groan escaped his throat and he thrust his fingers into her hair, pulling her mouth to his with a fierce hunger.
‘Kiss me,’ she whispered. ’And don’t stop.’
His mouth enveloped hers again and their shared sweetness tasted like ambrosia as he caressed her eyelids, her ears her neck, and Laurel marveled at the strangeness of the world. She had loved him, had always loved him. She had even known it, somehow.
‘Are you sure?’ Tamani murmured, his lips softly grazing her ears.
‘I am so sure,’ Laurel said, her hands clutching the front of his shirt.
‘What changed?’ He pushed her hair away from her face, his fingers lingering on her temples, just brushing her eyelashes.
Laurel sobered. ‘When I brought you the potion, I thought I was too late. And I had just taken it myself. And all I wanted right at that moment was to take my own cure away. To die with you.’
Tamani pressed his forehead gainst hers and lifted one hand to stroke her chhek.
‘I’ve loved you a long time,’ she said. ‘But there was always something holding me back. Maybe it was that I was afraid of an emotion that was so consuming. It still frightens me,’ she admitted in a whisper.”
Source: Destined
“Laurel paused. Then she took David's hand and wrapped it around Chelsea's. After a long moment he nodded and led Chelsea through the gateway and out of Avalon. Laurel took one look before following. She saw Marion, her face a picture of shock; Jamison, his fist raised in triumph, a roar of cheers and applause surrounding him; Yasmine, still standing on the bench, looking every bit like the queen Laurel had no doubt she would one day be.
Grinning, she twined her fingers through Tamani's and together they walked out into the glittering starlight of California. Laurel considered the words Tamani had just spoken. They were technically true; soon they would be in David's car, headed to the house where she lived. But she knew the truth now. With Tamani beside her--his hand in hers-- she was already home."
Aprilynne Pike
Destined pg. 300-301”
“Laurel returned to CJ's bedroom. "Do you want me to remove your clothes?"
"Hell, yeah," he said, and the growly expression immediately vanished.”
Source: A Silver Wolf Christmas
“Laurel stood on stage. She was very still. Her lovely blue eyes were lowered modestly. Her silver blonde hair fell in disheveled curls around her face, white roses and strands of pearls woven artfully throughout. A necklace of what looked like diamonds clasped her slender throat while white kid gloves were drawn up to her elbow. She held a fan of frosted silver in one hand, dangling at her side.
Her dress was a shimmering sapphire blue, and it fit her exquisitely, molding to her form, hugging her small bosom and lifting her breasts until they appeared ready to spill from the satin bodice. A silver braided sash cinched her waist, emphasizing its narrowness.
And then, she lifted her head, raised the hand that held the fan, then the other one and, tipping her head back, opened her eyes.
They were haunting and luminous, soft in the candlelight. Her skin was pale and smooth.
The crowd was utterly quiet, watching her.
And then, she began to sing.
If Dare had thought Laurel Spencer beautiful before, now she became goddess-like to him in an instant as a melody so heart-wrenching and lovely spilled forth from her lips.”
Source: Kiss Me, My Duke
“Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.”
“Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.”
Source: The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson
“Lauren closed her eyes, remembering how desperate she had been this morn in Chartres, how she had prayed for divine intervention to stop her wedding.
She had never expected that intervention to be riding a black horse and wielding a sword.”
Source: His Stolen Bride
“Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix”
“Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.”
“Lauren realizes right then that the prospect of being single—of recent events leading to a divorce and her being a single mother with child support checks and the like—scares her to death. Dating itself is such a frightening, vulnerable time period, no matter what the circumstances. It sucks, really. She doesn’t want to go through all that again.”
Source: Quarter Life Crisis
“Lauren the therapist always tells me that the only person I can compare myself to are the former versions of myself.”
Source: Exactly Where You Need to Be
“Lauren was his and he wasn’t letting her go.”
Source: Claiming His Mate
“LAUREN: We here at Strexcorp Synergists, Inc., are dedicated to the betterment of life through branding, social networking, and upbeat music.
KEVIN: And hard work.
LAUREN: I'm pretty sure it's implied that hard work is part of it, Kevin.
KEVIN: I'm pretty sure I didn't ask for your feedback.”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle?”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“Lauren woke wedged against Ryder, her back to his front, his arm wrapped around her belly and one strong thigh between hers. If she was looking for space, she had about a hair’s width.”
Source: Live By The Team
“LAUREN: You know, Cecil, I was never a Girl Scout myself, but I can say I am thrilled to support your endeavor to help bring your niece...I'm sorry. What was her name again?
CECIL: I don't want to um -
LAUREN: Janice. It was Janice. I love the way you are taking part in Janice's life. You must really care for her.
CECIL: Yes. With all my heart. But -”
Source: The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe
“Laurence [Fishburn] helped redo some of the dialogue [in John Wick 2], he and Keanu [Reeves] workshopped it. And he couldn't have been more respectful couldn't have been more brilliant on set. I said, "look, I'm gonna have to work you a little bit here cause I only get you for three days." He never left set, was always engaging, always working on his lines, it was awesome.”
“Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.”
“Laurence Arne-Sayles is the transgressive thinker par excellence. He crossed so many boundaries. He wrote about magic and pretended it was science. He convinced a group of highly intelligent people that there were other worlds and he could take them there. He was gay when it was still illegal. He kidnapped a man and to this day no one knows why.”
Source: Piranesi
“Laurence," Granby said at his shoulder, "in the hurry, the ammunition was all laid in its usual place on the left, though we are not carrying the bombs to balance it out; we ought to restow."
"Can you have it done before we engage? Oh, good Lord," Laurence said, realizing. "I do not even know the position of the convoy; do you?" Granby shook his head, embarrassed, and Laurence swallowed his pride and shouted, "Berkley, where are we going?"
A general explosion of mirth ran among the men on Maximus's back. Berkley called back, "Straight to Hell, ha ha!" More laughter, nearly drowning out the coordinates that he bellowed over.”
Source: Throne of Jade
“Laurence, is going mad very uncomfortable?”
Source: League of Dragons
“Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.”
“Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.”
“Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away.”
Source: Face-Off
“Laurens, Lafayette, and Hamilton--all roughly the same age-- had become inseparable when they discovered they shared the conviction that all men should be free, including blacks.”
Source: The Hamilton Affair
“Laurent, just turned twenty, and possessing an elaborate mind with a gift for planning, detached it from the petty intrigues of the court and set it loose on the broader canvas of this, his first command.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“Laurent stopped. Damen could see the moment when Laurent decided to continue. It was deliberate, his eyes meeting Damen's, his tone subtly changed.
'Damianos of Akielos was commanding troops at seventeen. At nineteen, he rode onto the field, cut a path through our finest men, and took my brother's life. They say--they said--he was the best fighter in Akielos. I thought, if I was going to kill someone like that, I would have to be very, very good.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“Laurent wasn't loved. Laurent wasn't liked. Even among his own men, who would follow him off a cliff, there was the unequivocal consensus that Laurent was, as Orlant had once described him, a cast iron bitch, that it was a very bad idea to get on his bad side, and that as for his good side, he didn't have one.”
Source: Captive Prince: Volume Two
“Laurie exclaimed. "He may not be as old as Tom Cruise, but he's too old for you. I bet he's in college. He wouldn't be interested in us.”
“Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)
“Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.”
“Laurie Penny, jedna z ważnych współczesnych feministycznych myślicielek, pisze: „Kiedy rozeszła się wieść o morderstwie, kiedy cały cyfrowy świat zaczął je omawiać i zastanawiać się nad jego znaczeniem, byłam bliska napisania do mojego wydawcy mejla z prośbą o kilka dni wolnego, ponieważ kilka szczególnie brutalnych pogróżek, zwłaszcza tych dotyczących gwałtu, sprawiło, że byłam roztrzęsiona i potrzebowałam czasu, żeby się pozbierać. Jednak zamiast dać sobie ten czas, piszę niniejszy post – piszę go, pogrążona w żałobie i pełna gniewu nie tylko z powodu masakry w Isla Vista, ale także z powodu tego, co tracimy wszędzie, dlatego że język i ideologia nowej mizoginii wciąż traktowane są jako coś, co można wybaczyć. (…) Mdli mnie, kiedy za każdym razem, kiedy próbuję mówić o ofiarach i o tych, które przetrwały przemoc, każe mi się współczuć sprawcom”.”
Source: Men Explain Things to Me
“Laurie piped up again. 'At State, everybody calls diversity dispersity. What happens is, everybody has their own clubs, their own signs, their own sections where they all sit in the dining hall--all the African Americans are over there? . . . and all the Asians sit over't these other tables? -- except for the Koreans? -- because they don't get along with the Japanese so they sit way over there? Everybody's dispersed into their own little groups -- and everybody's told to distrust everybody else? Everybody's told that everybody else is trying to screw them over--oops!' -- Laurie pulled a face and put her fingertips over her lips -- 'I'm sorry!' She rolled eyes and smiled. 'Anyway, the idea is, every other group is like prejudiced against your group, and no matter what they say, they're only out to take advantage of you, and you should have nothing to do with them -- unless your white, in which case all the others are not prejudiced against you, they're like totally right, because you really are a racist and everything, even if you don't know it? Everybody ends up dispersed into their own like turtle shells, suspicious of everybody else and being careful not to fraternize with them. Is it like that at Dupont?”
Source: I Am Charlotte Simmons
“Laurie Siler. The singer. The Rockstar. He looked older than his 21 years. I’d always thought he was good looking, in music videos and interviews. But he was so much more beautiful in person. He had a strong jaw beneath a wide mouth, kind green eyes, floppy brown hair, slicked back but still brushing his shoulders. He wore a white t-shirt and black skinny jeans over tan Chelsea boots. I looked back to his eyes and they were staring straight at me. I was struck. Breathless. He smirked. The cocky sonofabitch.”
“Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.”
Source: The Charioteer
“Laurie, you're hopeless.'
It was only then that she saw the twinkling in his eye and realized he was teasing her.
She blushed. 'You're teasing. You're awful. A horrible bore.'
He winked. 'At least I'm not a cabbage. At least I'm not Professor Bore.'
'At least that,' she said, smiling into her tea. 'Odious fellow.”
Source: Jo & Laurie
“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”
Source: Annotated Little Women with English Grammar Exercises: by Louisa May Alcott (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)
“Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.”
“Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.”
“Laut adalah pengembaraan sebuah tujuan,
Apalagi ketika hati telah dilanda gunda dan gulana.
Pada siapa lagi kuarahkan semua resah ini,
Saat aku telah kehilangan angan
yang dulu pernah aku miliki.?
Bahkan dinding yang diam
mulai tertawa sinis padaku...
i feel nothing...!”
“Laut melambangkan perpindahan. Kedatangan dan kepergian.”
Source: Man's Defender
“Laut memang selalu bisa menghadirkan kebebasan.”
Source: Hari Tak Selamanya Malam
“LAUT YANG MENGENANG
DUA BAYANGAN
Fragmen I — Laut Yang Mengasah Ingatan
Laut membuka kelopaknya pelan,
seperti ibu tua yang tak pernah berhenti
menyebut nama kedua anaknya
yang tak kunjung pulang.
Dalam kabut asin, dayung-dayung perahu
mengiris fajar tipis—
di kejauhan, layar-layar kapal Tiongkok, Gujarat, Arab,
berdiri seperti kitab-kitab raksasa
yang menuliskan nasib manusia.
Gelombang itu tahu:
sebelum Tuah lahir dari sumpah
dan Jebat dari luka,
ada nadi besar yang tak berhenti memanggil—
nadi yang tak tunduk pada raja mana pun,
nadi yang menyimpan seluruh rahasia
tentang siapa sesungguhnya yang berdaulat:
manusia, atau rasa takutnya sendiri.
Fragmen II — Pelabuhan Urat Nadi Zaman
Pelabuhan berdenyut seperti jantung basah.
Suara pedagang Pasai, Makassar, Champa,
menyilang di udara:
serak, cepat, waspada—
setiap transaksi adalah pertaruhan jiwa.
Di pasar ikan yang licin,
tumpukan garam mengkilap seperti tulang-tulang
dari sejarah yang tak ingin dilupakan.
Bocah-bocah menjerit di antara karung lada,
dan seorang perempuan tua
menawar kain sutra
dengan tangan gemetar oleh kelaparan yang diwariskan.
Di balik hiruk pikuk itu,
para syahbandar mencatat angka-angka
yang tak pernah memihak rakyat.
Pelayaran besar sedang berlangsung:
rempah bergerak,
emas bergerak,
manusia menggerak
dan digerakkan.
Dari tepi dermaga,
Tuah kecil dan Jebat kecil
memandang kapal-kapal tak dikenal,
merekam napas pertama mereka
kepada dunia.
Fragmen III — Istana:
Takut yang Menjadi Hukum
Dinding istana berlantai marmer dingin
menggemakan
bisik-bisik yang lebih tajam dari keris.
Para bendahara menggeser angka,
para pembesar menggeser kesetiaan,
para tabib menggeser kebenaran.
Raja duduk seperti bayang-bayang
yang ketakutannya menjelma jadi
ritual harian.
Setiap mata tertunduk—
bukan hormat,
melainkan ketakutan agar tidak
ikut ditarik ke liang intrik.
Di sini, sumpah setia menjadi mata rantai,
dan keadilan hanyalah pantulan cahaya
dari lampu minyak yang hampir padam.
Tuah tumbuh di bawah atap ini—
belajar bahwa setia bisa berarti bisu,
bahwa patuh bisa berarti sekarat.
Sementara Jebat, di lorong lain,
belajar bahwa diam adalah dosa
yang diperintahkan oleh para penguasa
untuk melanggengkan ketidakadilan.”
“LAUT YANG MENGENANG
DUA BAYANGAN
Fragmen IV — Dua Tubuh yang Saling Menghantui
Malam di istana jatuh seperti kapak.
Angin lembab membawa bau darah
yang belum mengering dari sejarah.
Di ruang sepi,
dua sosok berdiri—
bukan lagi Tuah dan Jebat,
melainkan dua luka yang mencari
siapa yang harus menanggung
cacat zaman ini.
Keris bergetar di tangan,
tapi yang sebenarnya mereka tusuk
adalah pertanyaan yang tak pernah dijawab:
Apakah kesetiaan
adalah memberi segala pada penguasa?
Ataukah kesetiaan
adalah membela manusia dari penguasanya?
Setiap langkah pecah seperti bongkah es di dasar sumur.
Setiap tatapan adalah cermin retak
yang memantulkan dua takdir
yang tak bisa berhenti
mencintai dan mengkhianati
dunia yang sama.
Fragmen V —
Rakyat: Bayang-Bayang
yang Tak Pernah Ditanya
Di luar istana,
rakyat berkumpul seperti kabut—
tak terlihat,
tapi menentukan musim.
Mereka mengasuh luka
yang diwariskan dari kerajaan
ke kerajaan,
dari penjajah ke penjajah,
dari pemimpin ke pemimpin
yang semuanya mengaku penyelamat.
Di pasar malam,
seorang lelaki kehilangan anaknya
karena jerat pajak yang terlalu tinggi.
Di kampung nelayan,
perempuan-perempuan menjerang air asin
untuk mengelabui rasa lapar.
Rakyat menonton duel Tuah–Jebat
melalui kabar yang tak pasti:
siapa bajingan?
siapa pahlawan?
siapa pembebas?
Atau mungkin pertanyaannya salah:
siapa yang sebenarnya memanfaatkan keduanya?
siapa yang menciptakan perpecahan ini
agar istana tetap aman
dan rakyat tetap tiarap?
Fragmen VI — Pertanyaan yang Diwariskan
Layar-layar modern berkedip
seperti kapal-kapal tua yang kembali dari perjalanan jauh.
Kita hidup di antara
penguasa yang tak takut pada rakyatnya,
dan rakyat yang diajari
untuk mencintai para penguasa
lebih dari dirinya sendiri.
Tuah hidup di kita
setiap kali kita memilih diam
atas ketidakadilan yang kita lihat.
Jebat hidup di kita
setiap kali kita berteriak
tanpa memahami bagaimana
suara kita dimanfaatkan.
Dan laut—
ah, laut itu masih memanggil,
seakan berkata:
“Anak-anakku,
kalian bertengkar terlalu lama
di atas geladak perahu yang sama.
Kalian lupa bahwa badai datang
tanpa memilih siapa yang setia
dan siapa yang memberontak.”
Kita berdiri di sini,
saksi tanpa nama,
penimbang tanpa mahkota:
Di manakah manusia seharusnya berdiri—
pada sumpah,
atau pada nurani?
Desember 2025”
“Lava bread makes you passionate.”
Source: Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Lava crust," he said, voice hushed in wonder. "It's lava crust. The fire is burning within the creature's skin."
"No wonder it's in pain," Machiavelli muttered.
"You sound almost sorry for it," Dee snapped.
"I never traded my humanity for my long life, Doctor. I've always remembered my roots." His voice hardened, turning contemptous. "You worked so hard to be like your Elder master that you've forgotten what it is like to feel human—to be human. And we humans"—he stressed the last word—"have the capacity to feel another creature's pain. It is what lifted the humani above the Elders, it is what made them great.”
Source: The Magician