Carrie Allen > Carrie's Quotes

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“If you're unhappy, change something.”
― Sue Grafton, D is for Deadbeat

“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

“While I had no intention of hooking up with him, I still wanted him to want to hook up with me.
It was the principle of the thing, after all.”
― Kimberly Raye, Dead End Dating

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”
― Sue Grafton, M is for Malice

“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
― Robert Jordan

“I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum”
― Janet Evanovich, Two for the Dough

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall