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Why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday e...

Laura Dave

Why people travel far from home-far from where they started. There was, of course, the obvious reason:escape. Escape from the monotony of every day. SO many of us chasing what we wished our everyday e...

Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful.

Laura Dave

Knowing Finn thought I was an awful driver. Like, running of gas while getting a speeding ticket awful.

Tags: my life, siblings

About Author
Laura Dave may refer to:

Laura Dave (novelist) (born 1977), American novelist
Laura Dave (journalist) (born 1985), Cameroonian journalist

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably wo...

Laura Dave

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably wo...

Tags: divorce, heartache, heartbreak, love

He reached forward and held my face, trying to make me look at him. Except I couldn't look at him and not see all the stories he had kept private about his life this last year. There were breakfasts w...

Laura Dave

He reached forward and held my face, trying to make me look at him. Except I couldn't look at him and not see all the stories he had kept private about his life this last year. There were breakfasts w...

The calm can't last, not if you're really living. if you're living fully, the storms coming to get you.

Laura Dave

The calm can't last, not if you're really living. if you're living fully, the storms coming to get you.

I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I di...

Laura Dave

I’d been wrong about the ways we move past the versions of ourselves that no longer fit. I’d thought it involved running, as far and as fast as your feet could carry you, from your former selves. I di...

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

Laura Dave

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

Tags: love

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

Laura Dave

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.

Laura Dave

I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

Laura Dave

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else.What's th...

Laura Dave

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else.What's th...

Quoting Steinbeck-Peter said,'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Laura Dave

Quoting Steinbeck-Peter said,'A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

Laura Dave

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that. The work he has never wanted to do, that she spent the better part of her life trying to...

Laura Dave

But Eve - ow whoever comes after Eve - cant save him from eventually doing the hard work that comes after that. The work he has never wanted to do, that she spent the better part of her life trying to...

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

Laura Dave

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn’t it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

Saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to h...

Laura Dave

Saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to h...

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

Laura Dave

You can't finish the things you weren't supposed to start.

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evi...

Laura Dave

People always say that things come full circle, but I think that's not accurate. I think they just come very close. You find yourself almost back where you started, but you've moved slightly. Like evi...

Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments—these moments that you know you’re going to remember—but like anything else, nothing exists without...

Laura Dave

Where do we go from here? I started off this crazy weekend by trying to make sense of these moments—these moments that you know you’re going to remember—but like anything else, nothing exists without...

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falli...

Laura Dave

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falli...