Carmen DeSousa > Carmen's Quotes

“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”
― Carmen DeSousa

“A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.”
― Carmen DeSousa

“And they...LIVED! Life isn't always ‘Happily Ever After’, rather, loving FOREVER, regardless.”
― Carmen DeSousa, She Belongs To Me

“Semper ubi sub ubi (Latin for "Always wear underwear")”
― Bryanna Lee

“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Dear John

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”
― Carmen DeSousa

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is a light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others.”
― Ada Adams

“Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.”
― Carmen DeSousa

“Reading is a lot like fine dining... Some readers prefer just the meat and potatoes; I enjoy a seven-course meal.”
― Carmen DeSousa

“But before she’d start reading, she’d pass the book around to the students. Each child had to inhale the pages, thereby infusing the scent and memory as one into their subconscious.”
― Carmen DeSousa, The Library: Where Life Checks Out

“Ever think about contract killing?” Angela”
― Carmen DeSousa, Unlucky In Love: Jana's Story Part 1

“I opened a book and in I strode.
Now nobody can find me.
I've left my chair, my house, my road,
My town and my world behind me.
I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
I've swallowed the magic potion.
I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
And dived in a bottomless ocean.
I opened a book and made some friends.
I shared their tears and laughter
And followed their road with its bumps and bends
To the happily ever after.
I finished my book and out I came.
The cloak can no longer hide me.
My chair and my house are just the same,
But I have a book inside me.”
― Julia Donaldson

“You'll never get to the happily ever after if you don't move past the current chapter...”
― Carmen DeSousa

“I was behind, but now I'm below. Hopefully, they'll have books wherever I go...”
― Carmen DeSousa

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“‪If the overuse of adjectives is frowned upon in writing, why are expletives—the ones commonly used as adjectives—embraced?”
― Carmen DeSousa

“I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.”
― Edgar Allan Poe