Ernessa T. Carter > Quotes

“I will never let a man hand me an Invitation to Crazy.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“That's the thing people never warn you about with breakups. It's the good times that really get you. In fact, they hurt worse than the bad times.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“PMSing-which I personally thought could be better identified as 'the one time of the month when women saw shit clearly.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“Life is hard. Even when it looks easy, it's hard.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“I have made a vow to myself never to accept a guy's Invitation to Crazy, and from the moment you showed up at my dressing room door, that's what I've felt like you've been trying to hand me.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“I just finished reading Pearl Cleage 'What looks like Crazy on an ordinary day' and Ernessa T. Carter '32 Candles'; they were both fantastic. I had almost giving up hope of finding anything I'd like to read. They contained relatable topics and wrote in vernacular that made me feel at ease with the whole process. I think I'm rediscovering my love of books from these two amazing authors.”
― Ernessa T. Carter , 32 Candles

“With enough time and patience you can get used to anything. Believe that. .”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“That shit was funny, but it ain't right.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“So James refusing to sit down was a big deal. Unheard of. Like a black child suddenly saying in an English accent to its mama, “No, madam, I will not retrieve a switch so that you may beat me with it. I believe your request to be not only abusive, but also absurd.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“If he doesn’t call you in a timely manner, he is not extraordinary.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men

“No matter how evolved humans think they are, we still have the same flight-or-fight instincts of our caveman ancestors.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“You’re a great person, and I just want you to manifest that in relationships.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men

“I loved him. I loved him so much that I didn’t know how to express it anymore. It was beyond words at that point. All I could do was let my love for him fill me up from head to toe, until it was glowing out of me from every pore.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, 32 Candles

“Don’t change your hair. Don’t change your personality. Don’t change the way you dress. Don’t lose weight for anything other than health reasons. And, listen to me well now, don’t worry about whether this will affect the number of guys that are attracted to you.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men

“and unlike every other indie label, they didn’t already have a black female artist in their stable—it was like some kind of quota with these labels and they all claimed they could only have one, like they were all Highlander and shit.”
― Ernessa T. Carter, The Awesome Girl's Guide to Dating Extraordinary Men