Carrie Firestone > Quotes

“The pain of losing doesn't get less with each person I lose. But I have the wisdom of knowing the pain isn't forever. That fades. The memories stay. And the love isn't going anywhere.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“People tried to force me to feel better. But the only things that worked were time and distraction. Distract yourself. Stay busy. Count marshmallows, study frogs, whatever it takes. Time heals all wounds. It just does.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“That’s my point. If you view the world as gross, you’ll never be able to enjoy it.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Maybe heaven is another dimension, and our dreams are a portal.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Be patient, kiddo. It’ll come.” He turns and faces me. “You know when you fall and get a big old bruise on your leg? That bruise isn’t going anywhere for a while. But it takes longer to heal if you’re pressing on it all the time.” I motion for him to wait while I grab napkins from the bar and blow my nose. “Be gentle with yourself. Listen to good music. Eat good food. Nourish your body and your spirit, and you’ll be all right.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Take the pain and grow beauty...You know I've always loved volcanoes. I love how they spew searing, deadly lava that goes on to nurture the most beautiful landscapes on earth. It's from searing pain that the deepest beauty can sprout”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“...I witnessed a piece of her soul leave her body. Until that day, I had thought souls left bodies at the time of death, all at once. But when I saw Olivia's face, her arms crossed in front of her, the tears streaming down her cheeks, and the rose-colored hives blooming upward and outward across her chest, I knew everything I had believed about souls leaving bodies was wrong. Souls leave bodies in tiny gasps, like when you hold the lip of a balloon tightly and let out the air a little bit at a time" -Molly”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“My life has been fabulous because I never listened to my parents.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“That's what you should always do, Mads. Take the pain and grow beauty.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“I am awestruck that life can give us such breathtaking beauty.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“No, we won’t forget this.” I pull a lilac off a low branch and tuck it behind Liza’s ear. “Bonita,” I say. Before we get up, I kiss her on the cheek. “We’re going to make memories this summer so when high school is over we can meet back on this bench and remember it all, okay?” Liza smiles. “It’s a date.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“You don’t need some vintage thing with another woman’s secrets stuck to the seams.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Mom comes in a little while later. “I just want you to know he’s doing this because he’s out of sorts.” “He’s been out of sorts since I was born, Mom.” Her face drops, and she walks out to pack Danny’s suitcase, because Danny is out of sorts and can’t do anything for himself.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“It felt like the start of a whirlwind five-person romance, like we were running into something deep and exciting, something magnetic and abnormally comfortable.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Unlikelies

“BEFORE THE TREE HOUSE WAS A RECORDING STUDIO FOR PODCASTS, IT WAS:* A grotto for mermaids and mermen. Piles of seashells. Buckets of sand from our old sand table. Fabric in shades of blue hanging everywhere. A fairy house. Shimmer fabric in shades of pink, yellow, and green. Tissue-paper flowers. Cutout butterflies with huge googly eyes. The boxcar from the Boxcar Children books. Spoons, tin plates, a knapsack, crackers, and plain cookies. Red-and-white-checked fabric for the windows. A keep. Cardboard swords wrapped in foil. Many, many of them. The Gryffindor common room. Red and gold, with wands made out of repurposed foil swords.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“Mom always says to leave him alone, that he’s an introvert and he needs to get his energy from a quiet place inside himself and that she can relate. I think he gets his energy from paint fumes and really good wee.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“For the unlikely revolutionaries, The ones who were, The ones who changed the world.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Cheers to all the fun we've had. There are no words for the joy you have brought me. I love you, honey.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“I don’t say this to Olivia, for obvious reasons, but when Mr. Dern and Dr. Couchman were yelling at her because of a royal-blue tank top with spaghetti straps, I witnessed a piece of her soul leave her body.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“The thing about souls. Remember those tiny pieces, the bits that break off and burn off and fly away? I have good news. They can come back" -Molly”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“And soon I'll return to the white rose of Yorkshire, where the sky bathes my soul with a watering can.”
― Carrie Firestone

“I’ve been thinking about Skinny Dave. I wonder if he’s in heaven, up past the glittery constellations, in some paradise-shaped other dimension. I want him to be there, far away from the demons that betrayed him.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Yeah. I want to tell you what happened to me and my friends when we were at the middle school. It was messed up,” the senior says. I look into her eyes and feel the boldness grow inside me. “Would you be willing to be interviewed for the podcast?” She hesitates. “Yes. I’ll definitely do the podcast.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“The pain of losing doesn't get less with each person I lose. But I have the wisdom of knowing the pain isn't forever. That fades. The memories stay.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“I should say something to ruin him, but I don't like him or hate him enough.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Loose Ends List

“Like a fly caught in a spiderweb watching another fly get devoured by two gross hairy spiders.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

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― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded

“Sometimes it seems like I'm a sponge, like I absorb people's moods.”
― Carrie Firestone, The Unlikelies

“Megan Birch is smart and funny, and she loves horses and graphic novels. I know this because she was my lab partner this year in eighth grade. She walks and talks that way because she has CP, short for cerebral palsy. It’s not her fault. That’s how she was born.”
― Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded