Caroline Corcoran > Quotes

“Whatever I had, it turns out, I would look over my shoulder to see what someone else had and want it, too. This is me. Perhaps it is everyone.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Through the Wall

“Isn’t that what matters now, anyway? Behind closed doors can be flawed, as long as Facebook says joy.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Through the Wall

“From our tiny house by the sea, we can walk to the beach in ten minutes and Romilly sighs with relief every time her toes touch the water, no matter how freezing it is. ‘I don’t care how small the house is,’ she said when we had been searching for somewhere to live. ‘As long as it’s by the sea.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Five Days Missing

“Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.’ —Isaac Asimov”
― Caroline Corcoran, Tiny Daggers

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― Caroline Corcoran, Five Days Missing

“I’m always grateful when I’m reading the right book for the moment I am in; this is one of those times.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Through the Wall

“I looked at him and wondered if our minds were like storage units, only containing anxieties and worries instead of old desks and lava lamps. Do we just run out of our allocated head space in our late thirties, once we’ve crammed in family and work and school admin and friendships and finances? And if we try to cram in more, does it simply spill out, unable to be contained anymore? Is that what was happening to me?”
― Caroline Corcoran, Tiny Daggers

“Our world isn't normal. It hasn't been normal for a long time.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Five Days Missing

“But maybe we’re all only the versions of ourselves that exist within the parameters of our lives. Move those, and you move our limits. Maybe, when it comes to it, we are all capable of anything.”
― Caroline Corcoran, Five Days Missing