Carmela > Carmela's Quotes

“Reader, I cannot promise you will be less afraid when you finish this book, but I hope you will feel more able to name what lives inside you.”
― Olivia Gatwood, Life of the Party

“Love is wanting you to exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“The past is past to everyone but ghosts.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby