Carol Mason > Quotes

“everyone you meet loves something, longs for something and has lost something.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“You shouldn’t minimise moments, Alice. Our whole life is made up of them. It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“Sometimes it’s easier to pretend everything’s fine than admit differently. But the problem is it becomes habit-forming until it’s our new reality. Then we’re really just living a lie.”
― Carol Mason, The Shadow Between Us

“If you want to be in love, you have to accept that you run the risk of having your heart broken in such a way that it’s almost impossible to mend. Some of us can live quite happily without that wretched experience. But some of us can’t. We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.’ Evelyn”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I don’t think I’ve ever noticed how silence is a sound of its own.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“You will get past this. Sometimes, you just have to face what you fear the most. It’s shitty, but it’s life.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“That grey area between what we know and what we think we know.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“It shouldn’t always be the big, dramatic events that make you sit up and take notice. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“the”
― Carol Mason, The Shadow Between Us

“I am endlessly astonished how I can be hit so unexpectedly by something I already know. I’ve”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I’m interested in you and I like you. I want to know all the little things that make you the person who a very good man fell in love with.’      A”
― Carol Mason, Send Me A Lover

“Envy is the most futile of emotions. Sometimes, you are envying an idea you have about someone, but you’re actually envying fiction.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I have stood on the other side, and her silent heartbreak is a heat that travels from her chest to my stomach. I no longer know where I leave off and she begins; which emotions are mine, and which are only mine because they are first hers. Her hurt feelings stay with me for days.”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“Those are the best memories, you know. Memories of things that end when they should. Always remember.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“All this ends today. There’s a lot of life left. Start living it the way you want to live it, the way you should have been living it all along. For you, not for a man.”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“Some of us can live quite happily without that wretched experience. But some”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“had to create a false truth: that taking another woman’s husband is okay, especially if perhaps you have succeeded where she has failed: in showing him that you need him more.’ ‘So”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“I can’t remember the last time anyone said they were proud”
― Carol Mason, The Shadow Between Us

“betwixt”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“Everything happens for a reason. It’s not a cliché, I can promise.’ I”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.”
― Carol Mason, After You Left

“It’s funny how you can lie in bed next to the same person for years and he’ll never know you’re longing for somebody else, or that you don’t long for him. That you’ve never longed for him,”
― Carol Mason, Send Me A Lover

“Coming into the home where I grew up always fills me with a confused nostalgia. Everything is as it has been for thirty years.”
― Carol Mason, Send Me A Lover

“Then I remember my behaviour. When I look down the street, Mike is standing exactly where I left him, as though he’s cautioned himself from coming any closer.”
― Carol Mason, The Love Market

“have noticed that grief for my mother has me one step removed from even the most routine of rituals. It’s like being partially deaf. Life’s noise is going on out there, but there is a buffer between it and my ability to be properly attuned to it.”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“need”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“Lately I’m always running after life as though it’s ten minutes ahead of me. I don’t know where the balance went.”
― Carol Mason, Little White Secrets

“It wasn’t as passionate as my one-year relationship back in uni but somehow it was more real. With Mark, I wasn’t walking around aware of how big it was. I wanted him without desperately needing him. I was still very much my own person. I still knew who I was without him. It felt healthy . . . He always made me feel I had choices and freedom.”
― Carol Mason, The Shadow Between Us

“There is a man coming out of a building about fifty feet ahead of us. This wouldn’t be odd at all if it weren’t for the fact that I know this man. I”
― Carol Mason, The Love Market