Caroline > Caroline's Quotes

“I think that when you care enough for someone, you reach a point where it's far more painful not to have him at all than to have him and risk losing him. You realize the risk is worth it. Because happiness, however short-lived, is always worth it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, The Shadows Between Us

“So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I am broken inside”
― Christina Baker Kline

“I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.”
― Holly Black

“He wasn't looking at me like I was pathetic. He looked like someone who understood, intimately, what it was like to lose everything. To be forced to stand when you wished to fall. To get up on your own and defy the hand of fate that brought so much pain by smacking you down time and again. To choose to live and flourish despite the bad. And most important, to dare to dream of better days while your current world was a living nightmare.”
― Kerri Maniscalco

“Invisible was better. Invisible was always better. That way, things hurt less.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“Never apologize for loving someone. Even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Hope was a drug and Kiva, an addict.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“People—especially men—could react poorly if they thought their intelligence was being criticized.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“But, Papa, the endings are the best part.
Sometimes, sweetheart. But other times, the beginnings are.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“It helps if you have something to live for. To fight for. It grounds you, gives you a reason to get up every morning. It gives you a reason to want to survive. And sometimes, it’s the wanting that makes all the difference. Because once you give up in here”—she pointed to her heart—“then you’re already as good as dead.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“But things happen in life that you don’t expect, that you can’t plan for and you’re helpless to stop.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Please, don’t look at me like that. Don’t look at me like I’m broken.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Hope never dies. Hope was the beast that could never be slain, the light that blazed in every harrowing dark. A person without hope is a body without a soul.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“The gods don't listen to people like me, but I would go on my knees and beg them to let me keep you. You were once the bane of my existence . . . and now, you are the center of it.”
― Alex Aster, Nightbane

“Human beings deny other human beings’ humanity and call that power.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Sometimes you need another voice to press itself into you and remind you that you ’re right to say the scary thing, even if that scary thing is absolutely true.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Greedy men collect what they cannot understand, and weak men destroy what they cannot control.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“But someone once told me that while we know ourselves best, we don’t always know what we ’re capable of doing or becoming.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound