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Ten of My Favorite Emmy Laybourne Quotes
Emmy Laybourne, a writer whom I am guessing you love? Here are our 10 best Emmy Laybourne quotes for you to enjoy. At Australia Unwrapped we believe every book has at least one quotable line, and our mission is to find them all. Here you will find Emmy Laybourne’s top 10 popular and famous quotes. Like every good writer Emmy Laybourne made a number of memorable quotes, here are some of our favorites:
About Emmy Laybourne
Emmy Laybourne is an internationally bestselling Young Adult novelist best known for her Monument 14 trilogy, a trilogy that has been translated into nine languages. Her book Sweet won the Junior Library Guild Award, was a YALSA Quick Pick, and received a Perfect Ten rating from VOYA. Berserker and Ransacker, two of her latest books about Norwegian teens with ancient Viking powers, are currently being adapted for television.
Known as Mary Katherine Gallagher’s best friend in the movie “Superstar,” Emmy is a former character actress who lives outside New York with her husband, two kids, faithful dog, and seven chickens.
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Popular Quotes
“I like a kid who holds nothing back.”
― Emmy Laybourne
“Night came and fell hard.
Not like God drawing a blanket over our land
But like someone snuffing a candle.
Sudden and total.
Out—just like that.
Now we are waiting.
Waiting in the dark
To see if someone
Will switch on the light.
We can cower,
We can fear,
We can get lost together or
Get lost alone.
But the truth is:
I am the light. You are the light.
We are lit up together.
We are silhouettes of sunlight
cast against the night.
Shining now, let us
Shining, hold the light,
Shining, so that our families
Can find us.
Shining.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14
“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not — you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.”
― Emmy Laybourne
“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not- you launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only, if it’s the last you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so i ran.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14
“Monopoly belonged to me and Alex. It was our game and they would never understand. There were strategies and traditions and they would never get all its complexities.
I didn’t want them to play it.
I strode to the Toy Department for another divider, thinking that I would never play Monopoly with anyone besides Alex, ever. Ever, ever, ever, ever.
It was possible I was behaving somewhat like a child.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Sky on Fire
“We ate it like it was medicine. Like it was magic candy that could somehow restore us to a normal life again. We ate ourselves numb and got in our bags and went to sleep.
There was a lot of crying from the little kids and occasionally one of us would yell, “Shut up!”
That’s how we got by, that first night.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14
“And then I saw Niko. He had sunk down to his knees and had his face in his hands.
I went over to him.
“You did it,” I said. “You saved us.”
“Yeah,” he moaned, “but I lost her.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Sky on Fire
“We were a good team. I was glad we had decided to work on being friends. She was holding up her end of the bargain and I was trying my best not to worship her.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Sky on Fire
“I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar.”
― emmy laybourne, Monument 14
“Sometimes, when you’d least expect it, the grief would chop your legs out from under you.”
― Emmy Laybourne, Monument 14
10 Famous Quotes by Author Emmy Laybourne
Quotes for all, here you found our selection of 10 Emmy Laybourne quotes. Make sure you help by commenting your best Emmy Laybourne quote below and sharing our favorite authors so we can look them up, read some of their works and give you the best quotes we can find. We hope you enjoyed our top 10 quotes by Emmy Laybourne. However, feel free to comment below if you disagree or would like to include some other great and memorable Emmy Laybourne quotes in our list.
One Final Bonus – Emmy Laybourne Quote
“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be — if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.
But as hard as I had manifested Astrid Heyman with her hand in mine, her blue eyes gazing into mine, her lips whispering something wild and funny and outrageous in my ear, she had remained totally unaware of my existence. Truly, to even dream of dreaming about Astrid, for a guy like me, in my relatively low position on the social ladder of Cheyenne Mountain High, was idiotic. And with her a senior and me a junior? Forget it.
Astrid was just lit up with beauty: shining blonde ringlets, June sky blue eyes, slightly furrowed brow, always biting back a smile, champion diver on the swim team. Olympic level.
Hell, Astrid was Olympic level in every possible way.”
― Emmy Laybourne
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