Patrick Carman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside.
-- Patrick Carman

#Size #Body #Enough
In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.
-- Patrick Carman

#Summer #Morning #Eye
It occurred to me then that it was in times of struggle that I found the best parts of myself - courage, loyalty, an unexpected peace - and I always discovered what I needed to break through and go on.
-- Patrick Carman

#Loyalty #Struggle #Goes On
If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.
-- Patrick Carman

#Wall #Believe #Wings
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
-- Patrick Carman

#Writing #Self #Scary
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't somebody watching.
-- Patrick Carman

#Mean #Paranoid
She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.
-- Patrick Carman

#Fearless #Gorgeous #Awe
You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
-- Patrick Carman

#Needs #Gone #Need You
There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.
-- Patrick Carman

#Animal #Comforting #Companionship
As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.
-- Patrick Carman

#Memorable #Past #There Comes A Time
I watched the night sky with it's countless stars and its moon, and I wondered about the universe and all that had been created, why the stars and the moon rose at night and the sun in the day, how vast it must be, how I could never understand the infinite measure of its size.
-- Patrick Carman

#Stars #Night #Moon
But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
-- Patrick Carman

#Waiting #Answers #Sometimes
Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.
-- Patrick Carman

#Real #Challenges #Questioning
There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.
-- Patrick Carman

#Mouths #Librarian #Potty
Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!
-- Patrick Carman

#Sorry #Men #Giving
He has guided my hands in ways I don't always understand, ways that people of this world would scoff at. But there is a purpose for all that I have ever made, even if I don't understand for certain what that purpose is.
-- Patrick Carman

#Hands #People #Purpose
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
-- Patrick Carman

#Proud #Feels #Relics
I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.
-- Patrick Carman

#School #Catholic #Invisibility
I've stabbed two people with a fork today. What's wrong with me?
-- Patrick Carman

#Two #People #Today
Yeah, a lot more than he likes you," said Oh. It didn't look like Milo appreciated the joke very much. "That's debatable," said Milo. "Is not," said Oh. She leaned in and put her pink cast against my cheek, kissing me quickly on the lips. "That's incredibly unfair. If we were gay you'd be up a creek without a paddle. You wouldn't even be in the game." "He's right, you know," I said. "Aw. You guys are having a bromance. That's really cute.
-- Patrick Carman

#Cute #Gay #Kissing
I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three. I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one. I met a girl, and she changed everything.
-- Patrick Carman

#Girl #Two #Guy
The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.
-- Patrick Carman

#Grim Reaper #Disappear #Reaper
I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.
-- Patrick Carman

#Library #Librarian #Walks
My way is set as in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.
-- Patrick Carman

#Taken #Home #Fighting

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