Caela Carter > Quotes

“We're made of good stuff, but you have to work to get it. Our good stuff is cased under hard shells that will cut your fingers and burn your hands if you try to break through them. Our good stuff is hidden under layers of guts and gross yellow goo that will make you say "yuck" the whole time your cleaning it away with a paper towel. And just when you think you have gotten all the bad stuff out of the way, there's more guts, more shells, and more goo. But we're made of really good stuff. If you work really, really hard.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“The blood pumping through her veins when she landed a vault like that one always felt like exclamation points.”
― Caela Carter, Tumbling

“I though I screwed everything up," I say.
He smiles. "You're only one person. In the whole universe. You can't screw everything up.”
― Caela Carter, My Best Friend, Maybe

“And remember that just because something is scary and difficult in the moment doesn't mean it's bad. We usually feel better after the worst moments. Sometimes we need to go through the dark tunnel in order to see the light.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“Her heart was pumping sunshine and fresh running water.”
― Caela Carter, Tumbling

“I guess it's hard to forgive anyone when you don't have a sense of who you are, Dad says.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“It was Bobby who convinced her that gymnastics was a choice, that it had always been a choice, that she could still be herself-the same exact girl-if she was choosing something else.”
― Caela Carter, My Life with the Liars

“Rogers 1. Heart Splinters 2. Anger and His Shell 3. The Millionth New Plan 4. Good Morning, Confidence 5. Diagnosis Inconclusive 6. Mom Has a Problem 7. Tyler Has a Problem 8. Tyler Is My Brother 9. A Bad Kid 10. Jigsaw Brains 11. Golden, Glittery Gwendolyn 12. Diagnosis Conclusive 13. Letter Friends 14. A Good Kid in the Making 15. Similar Genetic Makeup 16. Extreme Side Effects 17. SuperGwendolyn 18. Gwendolyn on Pointlessness 19. Diagnosis Re-Inconclusive 20. The No Plan Plan 21. The Worst Possible Thing 22. The First Crack 23. Cross-Outs 24. Hettie’s List 25. Awesome Things Author Letter”
― Caela Carter, Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

“Dedication Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers 1. Heart Splinters 2. Anger and His Shell 3. The Millionth New Plan 4. Good Morning, Confidence 5. Diagnosis Inconclusive 6. Mom Has a Problem 7. Tyler Has a Problem 8. Tyler Is My Brother 9. A Bad Kid 10. Jigsaw Brains 11. Golden, Glittery Gwendolyn 12. Diagnosis Conclusive 13. Letter Friends 14. A Good Kid in the Making 15. Similar Genetic Makeup 16. Extreme Side Effects 17. SuperGwendolyn 18. Gwendolyn on Pointlessness 19. Diagnosis Re-Inconclusive 20. The No Plan Plan 21. The Worst Possible Thing 22. The First Crack 23. Cross-Outs 24. Hettie’s List 25. Awesome Things Author Letter”
― Caela Carter, Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

“She missed sharing a small world with this one woman, this one person who would always love her more than anyone else could.”
― Caela Carter, Tumbling

“We believe in Forever. We do. But our belief is thin. It’s a tightrope suspended above a deep, dark canyon. We stand on it and wobble. The minute someone shakes the rope, we could fall into the dark abyss of foster care.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“I come from the place where the words get stuck. My brother comes from the hiding spots in his closet. We were maybe born like the rest of you. Born to a woman who gave us things like red rubber balls and pink dresses. But we come from the hidden corners. The dark spots in the lungs or closets where secrets get lodged, the kind of secrets that takes years to wiggle loose. We come from places where things get stuck and hidden and lost. But person, and people, love us anyway.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“Yes: you should know my person is going to be someone else’s mom. You should know I couldn’t make her happy enough. You should know that I didn’t want to mess up trying to make Person happy by not making you happy too.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

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“Julian is screaming for a roll. That’s in my imagination. I’m imagining him screaming for a roll. In my head, he’s terrified he’ll never eat again because that roll isn’t hidden in the folds of his pants or the back of his shoes.”
― Caela Carter, Forever, or a Long, Long Time: A Moving Middle Grade Novel About Adoption, Trust, and Love That Multiplies for Children

“The way that race and gender intersect with every single thing in society is a twisted web of confusion that some of us are constantly working to untangle.”
― Caela Carter, Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers