Jonathan Carroll Quotes

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• My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Memories, Love You, Asks

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• Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Children, Coffee, Weather

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• The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Mean, Facts, Silent

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• The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Life, Real, Two

  Jonathan Carroll (2004). “Sleeping in Flame”, p.113, Macmillan

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• There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are discontent or content and they are not. Whatever they are, we are not and vice versa. Two trains going in different directions that pass for a few powerful moments at full speed, blasting noise and wind but then they are gone. Whatever serious chemistry might have been possible if, isn’t.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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• You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

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  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.89, Macmillan

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• Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

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  Change, Patience, Learning

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• Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally , forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy

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  Dog, Mean, Angel

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• At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love You, Want, Faces

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• Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Fake People, Giving Up, Care

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• The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Real, Two, People

  Jonathan Carroll (2014). “Bathing the Lion”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Kindness, Thinking, Magic

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• Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Lost, Ifs

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• Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Real, Love Is, Perspective

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.294, Macmillan

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• I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work.

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  Given, Planets, Our Lives

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.202, Open Road Media

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• The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

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  Waiting, Forever, Different

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• People are always waiting to be discovered.

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  People, Waiting, Always Waiting

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• Eating is sex for old people.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Sex, People, Eating

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

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  Thinking, Sight, Want

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Hate, Lying, People

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Fear, Heart, Doors

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• May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Ocean, Circles, House

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “White Apples”, p.60, Macmillan

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• If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

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  Heart, Two, Add

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• People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love, Forgiveness, Two

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• Everything you want in life has teeth.

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  Teeth, Want

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “From the Teeth of Angels”, p.24, Open Road Media

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