Carrie > Carrie's Quotes

“Sometimes it was as effortless as breathing. Sometimes it was as hard as living.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills

“I wish I could be better for you." She looks over at me, and I duck my head, shame sinking its teeth in. "I'm older and I know I'm supposed to be... an example, I don't know. At least someone you aren't embarrassed of." "You do fine." "I don't." "You're right, you don't. But you're getting better. And that isn't nothing.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“Time could crawl, it could fly, it could amble. Time was a slippery thing.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
― Shaun Usher, Letters of Note: Volume 1: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

“No human on God's earth is a nobody.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl

“We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.”
― Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic

“It feels like we’re the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Wonder Woman and a gay dementor. It doesn’t bode well for the survival of the species.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

“No, I wasn’t in love with clothes, but maybe I was in love with how clothes made me feel. I was designing how other people saw me, and that felt powerful.”
― Amy Spalding, The Summer of Jordi Pérez

“Good is not a thing you are. It's a thing you do.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

“There's this ayah from the Quran that my dad always quotes when he sees something bad on TV. A fire or a flood or a bombing. "Whoever kills one person, it is as if he has killed all of mankind... And whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all of mankind." When I was a little kid, that always made me feel better. Because no matter how bad things get there are always people who rush in to help. And according to my dad they are blessed.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal

“Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Little Shop of Happy Ever After

“They were probably reading on their tablets,” said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. “Yes, I know,” said the man. “But I couldn’t see. I couldn’t see what they were reading or ask them if it was good, or make a mental note to look for it later. It was as if suddenly, one day, all the books simply disappeared.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“Reading is being in stuff."
Ben squinted. "Like actually being there?"
"Like actually being there. You plug straight into the writer's brain. It's just you and them. You experience what they experience.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

“I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Surviving became a kind of warped Darwinian test in many areas of the Midwest, with only the maddest surviving.”
― Katarina Bivald, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

“Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive—all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
― Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“He could hear the amusement in her voice. It was the sound of the look she’d been wearing for the past ten minutes.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Alex snatches a shirt and boxers at random from the floor, shoves them at Henry's chest, and points him towards the closet. "Get in there."

"Quite," he observes.

"Yes, we can unpack the ironic symbolism later. GO.”
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

“Find out what you're good at...and then get even better. That's the key.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Mother always said it wasn't just about keeping going, but about standing up for what you believed in as well.”
― A.J. Pearce, Dear Mrs. Bird

“Are you kids going to be out for a while?" Mr. Tavares asked.
Out as in, out of the closet, or out as in, our celebrating?
"Yeah-- the rest of the team is partying at Reese's house. I think Matt and Darnell want to swing by," said Will.
Okay, yup, out celebrating. Glad I didn't reply with "I'm planning on being out permanently," then.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Only Mostly Devastated

“This is why we have cursing. I never understood what made folk do it, but now I know. All our dire feelings stain the heart, and the stains bloom into curses.”
― Megan Campisi, Sin Eater

“We make choices. We make bad choices. But we still deserve the right to choose.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

“The moment we forget that even the evil among us are still human is the moment we forget that even the most human among us are still evil.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza

“Please. I want to get better; I want to be better.”
“Then you’re going to have to do it on your own.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza