Carol Plum-Ucci · 331 pages
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“Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“You're in my personal space, so get out of it.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“«People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“...perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“There is justice in an insanely cruel world.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
“No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.”
― Carol Plum-Ucci, quote from The Body of Christopher Creed
Carol Plum-Ucci
Born place: in Atlantic City, NJ, The United States
Born date August 16, 1957
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