“You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don’t. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Love was death’s only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“He especially loved people - is so happy, especially remembering Eloise.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I love you, I love you, I love you.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I didn’t know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I’d always supposed I was ever man’s type.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I let the wound fester and grow, feeding on the silence between us. I learned then a crucial truth: that a relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers down the spines, recognizing a few familiar titles from School: Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse.
Caleb came beside me, his warm shoulder brushing against mine. "I do this funny thing sometimes," she said, shooting me a mischievous grin. "I open a book, and I look at each page. It's called reading”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“If The Islands South Ever Vanish, Even Further Into Navy Depths, My Eloise Could Appreciate Lovly Endless Blues.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.
"I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.
"I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.
They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“-loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny)”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“It was all for a moment. It was all too good to be missed.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“What sort of funny songs?"
"My balls are swearing my balls are swearing I can't keep my balls from sweating ohhh no."
"How is that funny?" I asked.
"As in the balls of your feet?"
"No, it's like this thing..... Never mind," he said.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Am învăţat atunci un adevăr crucial: că o relaţie poate fi judecată după lista de lucruri nespuse dintre 2 persoane.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“El amor era el único adversario de la muerte, la única cosa capaz de luchar contra sus voraces y desesperadas garras.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Am început să plâng, ştiind într-un final adevărul: dragostea era singurul adversar al morţii. singurul lucru îndeajuns de puternic să se lupte cu prinsoarea disperată a acesteia.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Iubirea înseamnă să ţii la cineva foarte mult. Să simţi că acea persoană contează pentru tine, ca şi când întreaga ta viaţă ar fi mai tristă fără ea.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.”
― Anna Carey, quote from Eve
“Betrayal wears a lot of different hats. You don’t have to make a show of it like Brutus did, you don’t have to leave anything visible jutting from the base of your best friend’s spine, and afterward you can stand there straining your ears for hours, but you won’t hear a cock crow either. No, the most insidious betrayals are done merely by leaving the life jacket hanging in your closet while you lie to yourself that it’s probably not the drowning man’s size. That’s how we slide,
and while we slide we blame the world’s problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there’s no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that’s the source of our descent, and it doesn’t start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.”
― Steve Toltz, quote from A Fraction of the Whole
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
“Oh, we’re well past you being just a date, my beauty.” He leaned in, his lips at my ear. “When we fucked in my bed you passed into uncharted territory – trust me on that one.”
― Raine Miller, quote from Naked
“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.”
― Tana French, quote from The Likeness
“They can't make you do anything you don't want to do.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Raven's Gate
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