Caroline > Caroline's Quotes

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again”.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“I stomp toward her and point. I've SO had it with her. "That is SO not nice."
You don't even talk like a queen." She glares at me.
Nick raises an eyebrow at me. "You're a QUEEN?"
I walk to the edge of the bed, stand just a few inches away from her. Power rolls off of her. "Okay, please refrain from your insidious comments, which are obviously geared to inflict harm upon my psyche. I do not appreciate it."
Nick cracks up. "Well, you ARE the same Zara.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“I told them he hit on me and that I was showing him my wrestling moves. I think they maybe believed it." I pull on my seat belt and roll down the window even though it's cold. I need to be able to smell for pixies. "We can't leave until everyone's out. I want to be sure nothing happens." "Did they really believe you Devyn asks.
My breath whooshes out with the reality of it and I adjust my previous statement. "I don't think so."
"Well there's another lovely complication." Devyn groans.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Know that I love you, that I always will love you no matter what choices you make, what paths you have chosen, and what paths you choose in the future.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“In Norwegian that would be 'hun ma dra. Kanskje er hun gravid.'" Astley sttempts to smile.
i can't help teasing him. "Which? Asking to go to the bathroom or dissing me because I'm pregnant."
"you are with child?" his eyes open wid, all mock terrified.
"No! Shut up. You know I'm not." I punch him in the arm and then lead him into the stairwell, shutting the door behind us. "Okay. Seriously, Astley, what happened to you? Why is your head bleeding?”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“I give a little wave back because it's more mature then giving him the finger.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“Zara White, since when has love ever not mattered?”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“ His lips,his soft and amazing lips, touch mine and the world spins with a different kind of magic. This kind isn't evil or hard, but lovely and wild, and I melt into it. He melts into it too, I can tell. I can feel how much he loves me just but the touch of his lips. And it is a good love, a really good love.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“ And this time Zara White," he says, " this time it is my turn to rescue you." - Astley”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“ Opening my eyes takes effort, but it's worth it to see him, right there in front of me. He's so beautiful,golden. It's so hokey, but it's how he is. He is warmth to me.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“It is warm within the mansions of Hel.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“I whirl around, stare into his grimy,grief-stricken face. His face is beautiful and so good. How could I have believed he'd betray us?”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“ Her arms quiver from holding the bowl. She must truly love him to hold that bowl for so very long. There must be something isdeof him that is worthy of that kindness”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“We all have to feel empty sometimes.”
― Carrie Jones, Endure

“Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.”
― Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns