“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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Entice
“Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“There are so many layers inside of people, so much soul pain and angsty depth and heart hurt, and some ... hide all this so well that when it comes out in an action as simple as a nod, your entire world shifts a little bit on its axis.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Entice
“I am not a good fighter," I try to explain again, fingering the edge of my shirt. "I mean, I am really bad at fighting, not as bad as my friend Issie, who is possibly the least fightery person in the world. I mean, I'm getting better, but still... I mean-- oh I'm sorry. I'm babbling.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from 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, quote from Entice
“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from 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, quote from Entice
“What we do,our choices, that's what defines us.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from 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, quote from Entice
“If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid...
"It is life magic".”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
“You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.”
― Carrie Jones, quote from Entice
Carrie Jones
Born place: in Manchester, NH
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“She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.”
― Marcel Proust, quote from Swann's Way
“A disappointed-looking Jesus eyed her from the wall...Look, look, her steps called out, here is a red headed sinner on the move.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, quote from The Bean Trees
“Then she was alone- with only a wolf for companionship- waiting to tell the next girl what a folly it was to love him, to trust him.”
― Melissa Marr, quote from Wicked Lovely
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from War and Peace
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Coraline
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