Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

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There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Beautiful, Believe, Snow

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

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Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Falling In Love, Unrequited Love, People

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Knows

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.155, Dial Press

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I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Uncles, Book, Fall

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That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Eye, Dark, Thinking

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I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Way, Lost Hope, Dangerous

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.322, Pan Macmillan

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I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Heart, Ideas, Greedy

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.233, Dial Press

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I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Work Out, Flying, Secret

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.350, Dial Press

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I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Life, World, Weight

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

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There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Heart, Dark, Black

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.349, Pan Macmillan

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I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Good Friend, People, Needs

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

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Thinking, Trying, Together

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If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Film, Ifs

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.203, Dial Press

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The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Cost, Want, Kind

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Dream, Sex, People

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Home, Long, Feel Good

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.259, Pan Macmillan

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You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

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World, Whole, Whole World

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

Carol Rifka Brunt

Thinking, June, Embarrassing

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My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Mother, Looks, Sandwiches

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.236, Pan Macmillan

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Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Party, Thinking, People

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.34, Dial Press

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I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Heart, Littles, Bits

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.25, Pan Macmillan

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You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

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Believe, Heart, Brain

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Girl, Stupid, People

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.220, Pan Macmillan

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It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Tunnels, Choices, Would Be

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You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.

Carol Rifka Brunt

People, Way, Habit

Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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