Michaela Carter > Quotes

“Outside the Bar Del Prado, night was coming on like a hopeless, drunken come-on, tequila on its breath, red neon signs and, outside the shops, strings of colored Christmas lights hung from the eaves like the sad, close-lipped smiles of boys who would lure you in with their loneliness, that melancholia you'd try and try to fix.”
― Michaela Carter, Further Out Than You Thought

“I was so swept up in our beautiful experiment in freedom, I couldn’t see his pain.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

“It was either opportunity or integrity. Women, it seemed, were more often pressed to choose between them.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

“With certain people you know the moment you meet them that you will be friends. Something opens between you, like a clearing in the woods where before there were trees.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

“Art is something one does, she decides, not something one needs to talk about. It exists without explanation. Everyone will have their own interpretation anyway.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light