Quotes
Authors
Carrie Jones
"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." --
Source : Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.174, A&C Black
Carrie Jones
#Crazy Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
“Let's be wise as the silence, strong as the wind, useful as the light; let's make of our lips a censer of the virtues.”
“Enthusiasm is my superpower. One might say that confidence yields the same result. I disagree. Confidence is about yourself, enthusiasm is about something else. Confidence is impressive, but enthusiasm is infectious. Confidence is serious, enthusiasm is fun.”
“Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown.”
“There is always that dream of escape, but there is no place to escape to, you just run into yourself.”
“The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.”
“the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?”
“My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.”
“I am not fond of speaking about politics because I don't have in my possession an army of 200,000 soldiers.”