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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• Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

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  Dog, Sleep, Simple

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “The Marriage of Sticks”, p.33, Open Road Media

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

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  Fake People, Giving Up, Care

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• People are always waiting to be discovered.

  Jonathan Carroll

  People, Waiting, Always Waiting

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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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• Eating is sex for old people.

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  Sex, People, Eating

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

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

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  Real, Two, People

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

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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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• 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.

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  Powerful, Fall, Emotional

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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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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

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  Brother, Memories, Past

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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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• 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.

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  Kindness, Thinking, Magic

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

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  Lost, Ifs

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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.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Waiting, Forever, Different

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• Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Weapons, Forget, Blind

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

  Jonathan Carroll

  Given, Planets, Our Lives

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

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

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  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• When you love someone deeply, you know secrets they haven't told you yet. Or secrets they aren't even aware of themselves. ... She was also the person I wanted to share the trivia of my life with, because that too is part of the magic of concern: Whatever you live is important to them and they will help you through it.

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  When You Love Someone, Magic, Secret

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• Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.

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  Falling In Love, Optimistic, Men

  Jonathan Carroll (2005). “Outside the Dog Museum”, p.126, Macmillan

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• Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.

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  Book, Reading, Smell

  Jonathan Carroll (2010). “The Land of Laughs: A Novel”, p.88, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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