Carrie Jones Quotes

• 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

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.100, A&C Black

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

  Carrie Jones

  Loss, Want

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.96, A&C Black

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• I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.

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  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

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  Writing, Care, Matter

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Perfect

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.174, A&C Black

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• What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

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  Choices, Our Choices

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.33, A&C Black

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• I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

  Carrie Jones

  Distress

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.62, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

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  Loss, People, Mourning

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.40, A&C Black

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• 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

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.50, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.229, A&C Black

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• It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself

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  World, Save Yourself, Save The World

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

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  Real, Emotion, Reason

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend”, p.163, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• We all have to feel empty sometimes.

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  Sometimes, Empty, Feels

  Carrie Jones (2012). “Endure”, p.188, A&C Black

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• I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.

  Carrie Jones

  People

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Entice”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

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• 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

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Friends help friends fight pixies.

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  Fighting, Pixies, Helping

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.140, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.

  Carrie Jones

  Running, Song, Dad

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Need”, p.104, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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'

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  Broken Inside, Voice, Unbroken

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.83, A&C Black

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Sweet, Heart, Thinking

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.70, A&C Black

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• A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?

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  Talking, Guy, Looks

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Best Job, Loving You

  Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.37, A&C Black

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• What feels best is how I no longer hurt.

  Carrie Jones

  Hurt, Feels

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• Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

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  Carrie Jones (2010). “Tips on Having a Gay (ex) Boyfriend”, p.133, North Star Editions, Inc.

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