“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
“What are you doing?”
“What?”
Emrys didn’t raise his voice as he said, “To that girl. What are you doing that makes her come in here with such emptiness in her eyes?”
“That’s none of your concern.”
Emrys pressed his lips into a tight line. “What do you see when you look at her, Prince?”
He didn’t know. These days, he didn’t know a damn thing. “That’s none of your concern, either.”
Emrys ran a hand over his weathered face. “I see her slipping away, bit by bit, because you shove her down when she so desperately needs someone to help her back up.”
― Sarah J. Maas, quote from Heir of Fire
“And suddenly it was all simple. He held out his arms to her. She stepped into them and found that she had been wrong; he was as big as she’d imagined—and his arms were as strong about her as she had ever dared to hope.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Drums of Autumn
“Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from The Goose Girl
“Her eyes were glittering like the eyes of a child when you give a nice surprise, and she laughed with a sudden throaty, tingling way. It is the way a woman laughs for happiness. They never laugh that way just when they are being polite or at a joke. A woman only laughs that way a few times in her life. A woman only laughs that way when something has touched her way down in the very quick of her being and the happiness just wells out as natural as breath and the first jonquils and mountain brooks. When a woman laughs that way it always does something to you. It does not matter what kind of a face she has got either. You hear that laugh and feel that you have grasped a clean and beautiful truth. You feel that way because that laugh is a revelation. It is a great impersonal sincerity. It is a spray of dewy blossom from the great central stalk of All Being, and the woman’s name and address hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it. Therefore, the laugh cannot be faked. If a woman could learn to fake it she would make Nell Gwyn and Pompadour look like a couple of Campfire Girls wearing bifocals and ground-gripper shoes with bands on their teeth. She could get all society by the ears. For all any man really wants is to hear a woman laugh like that.”
― Robert Penn Warren, quote from All the King's Men
“There were other thinkers, Bowman also found, who held even more exotic views. They did not believe that really advanced beings would possess organic bodies at all. Sooner or later, as their scientific knowledge progressed, they would get rid of the fragile, disease-and-accident-prone homes that Nature had given them, and which doomed them to inevitable death. They would replace their natural bodies as they wore out—or perhaps even before that—by constructions of metal and plastic, and would thus achieve immortality.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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