Carrie Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can
-- Carrie Jones

#Loss #Want
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

#Together #Stronger #Glue
The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, â€œAha. Of course. That's right.â€
-- Carrie Jones

#Care #Matter #Fit
I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.
-- Carrie Jones
What we do, our choices, that's what defines us
-- Carrie Jones

#Choices
Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
-- Carrie Jones

#Names #Humanity
I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.
-- Carrie Jones

#Mom #Hero #Used
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I like them all.Yeah?Yeah.He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water.Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.
-- Carrie Jones

#Flower #Thinking #Hands
Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?
-- Carrie Jones
What feels best is how I no longer hurt.
-- Carrie Jones

#Hurt #Feels
Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.
-- Carrie Jones

#Real #Emotion #Reason
A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?
-- Carrie Jones

#Talking #Guy #Looks
I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good.
-- Carrie Jones

#Sweet #Heart #Thinking
What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
-- Carrie Jones

#Grief #Fighting #Self
We all have to feel empty sometimes.
-- Carrie Jones

#Sometimes #Empty #Feels
Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
-- Carrie Jones

#Moving #Focus #Sometimes
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

#Voice #Broken #Way
Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
-- Carrie Jones

#Loss #People #Mourning
Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.
-- Carrie Jones

#Jobs #Loving You #Great Job
It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
-- Carrie Jones

#World #Save Yourself #Save The World
There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.
-- Carrie Jones

#Nice #Brain #Buttons
Iâ€™m not a damsel and there is no distress
-- Carrie Jones

#Distress
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

#Crazy #Thinking #Perfect
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
-- Carrie Jones

#Book #Fighting #Dust
It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.
-- Carrie Jones

#Names #Freak #Fear Of The Unknown
That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
-- Carrie Jones

#Lying #Love You #People
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

#War #Responsibility #Suffering

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