Mary Carter > Quotes

“If she thought the bad thought silently, but said the good thought out loud, then that was the one that would count in the end.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“From now on, I’m telling everyone I meet I’m in insurance. Or I’m a car dealer. Better yet—a Republican. That way, when they accuse me of doing the Devil’s work, at least there will be some validity to their claims.”
― Mary Carter, Accidentally Engaged

“Learn to tell what your story is about in one sentence. Narrow your focus. Stories have to be about something.”
― Mary Carter

“Maybe the kind of love that made your heart leap into your throat was the kind that could kill you.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“What’s for you, won’t pass you.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“There was an unwritten rule that hearing people who knew sign should identify themselves whenever they were around Deaf people. Otherwise the Deaf people might be carrying on an extremely private conversation, assuming no one around them could understand them. To not identify yourself was a betrayal of trust.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“An open heart didn’t mean every man for himself. It meant doing what was best for the greater good. It meant doing in your heart what you knew to be the right thing to do, even if, maybe especially if, it also meant saying good-bye.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“The biggest barriers she faced were man-made, not physical.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“American Sign Language was her language, her birthright, not some subpar substitute for English.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“De dragul iubirii, mănânci tot felul de chestii pe care nu le suporți.”
― Mary Carter, The Things I Do For You

“That was the thing about signs, they were open for interpretation. Meaning was in the eye of the beholder.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“She didn’t think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn’t want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn’t want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people’s opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“That was the problem with walls, Carlene thought as she looked out the window. They kept people out, but they also trapped people in.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for “hearing,” but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his forehead. It was a sign given to Deaf people who acted like hearing people. It wasn’t a compliment.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“Would you like a menu in Braille?”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“Too nice was a thief, robbing bits of your life out from underneath you, one experience at a time.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“Why was this happiness thing so weak, so fleeting?”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond

“It never ceased to amaze Lacey how ignorant people were about deafness. Forget understanding Deaf Culture. Forget hearing people respecting them as a linguistic community with a shared history, language, and pride. That was way beyond most hearing people’s understanding. Their perspective was that of pity, impairment, and fixing. Lacey was proud to be a Deaf woman, wouldn’t want to become hearing for anything in the world.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“Bitch, cookie, lesbian,” Lacey signed. Margaret smiled. “Oh, it’s such a beautiful language,” she said. “Like a dance in the air.”
― Mary Carter, My Sister's Voice

“Whether or not true love or love at first sight existed, energy between people did. Chemistry. She felt him before she saw him. And now, when their eyes met, a current ran between them, as sure as a live wire.”
― Mary Carter, The Pub Across the Pond