Caroline Young > Quotes

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― Caroline Young, The Forgotten Farmhouse by the Sea

“It was so quiet, so empty in my flat, like my body, and I sank down onto the kitchen floor and screamed and cried. I just wanted this baby back inside me, and I felt so alone.”
― Caroline Young, Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman

“Look for magic in the everyday: you can usually find a sprinkling of it somewhere.”
― Caroline Young, Coming Home to the Windmill by the Sea

“When the sun shines, its warmth fills the soul with hope of the summer to come, and branches on many trees begin to unfurl fresh, new leaves that glow in the spring sunshine like a green-gold veil, covering the blackened twigs of winter. Birds sing for the joy of it as soon as the sun rises as if they, too, have been longing for the darkness, finally, to lift.”
― Caroline Young, Coming Home to the Windmill by the Sea

“What’s disturbing about the seventies is that it was an era when men appeared particularly infatuated by the concept of the Lolita. Because adult women were demanding too much liberation, some men turned their attention to the younger, more naive, and less ardent version. There was Brooke Shields in Pretty Baby (1978) and The Blue Lagoon (1980), Mariel Hemingway in Woody Allen’s Manhattan (1979), and just Woody Allen’s output in general.”
― Caroline Young, Single and Psycho: How Pop Culture Created the Unstable Single Woman