Charlene Carr > Quotes

“You're all we have left of him.”
― Charlene Carr, Where There Is Life

“Sometimes it’s like that in life too. We look into a past that no longer exists, looking as if it’s real. We hold onto things in our life that there’s no reason to hold onto anymore because, unlike the stars, they don’t bring us beauty, they bring us pain.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“You’re very …” he pauses, “distant, and guarded, and it seems like your eyes are closed to some of the beauty, the goodness, the joy that is life. It’s like you’re holding onto these old hurts and using them as an excuse to create new hurts, to keep people away.” I’m”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“As long as yuh alive,” she says, “in every bad, if yuh wait, if yuh look, eventually yuh see a good. A good that wouldn’t have happened if not for the bad. Some lesson, some joy, some somet’ing. It doesn’t mean yuh happy de bad t’ing happened, but yuh happy for de good t’ing. Yuh hold on to dat. Yuh be thankful. Holding de good.”
― Charlene Carr, We Rip the World Apart

“Tess opened her eyes and looked to Katherine. "I don't understand." She exhaled through the tears. "I thought you hated me."
Katherine's lips formed a soft smile as her eyes grew moist. She shrugged. "Rose doesn't”
― Charlene Carr, Hold My Girl

“Biology means something to people. It’s blood. It’s connection. It’s understanding where you come from.”
― Charlene Carr, Hold My Girl

“I hate the way I’ve started thinking about her in the past tense. I know that’s technically how I should be thinking about her, but it seems a betrayal.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“The me I’m working toward—the me who isn’t bitter, who doesn’t begrudge others’ happiness, who is joyful—I doubt she’d stay away from her brother this long, no matter what he’d done or what a little ass he was.”
― Charlene Carr, Skinny Me

“out of each other’s lives again. If your mother refuses, then”
― Charlene Carr, Hold My Girl