E.A. Carter > E.A.'s Quotes

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
― Carl Sagan

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Claim me, and your every movement, every breath, every word will be written upon my heart, for eternity. You will be immortal yet.”
― E.A. Carter, The Lost Valor of Love

“I love you, even past the boundary of eternity. Not even the end of my existence could extinguish the love I feel for you.”
― E.A. Carter, The Call of Eternity

“Istara found the courage to meet Sethi’s eyes. In his, the anguish of his love, untainted by the darkness. He was going to leave her. Tears blazed a path through her soul. He drew her against him as she wept, as she accepted what he already knew. For them, there could only be war.”
― E.A. Carter, The Rise of the Goddess

“The purpose of art, and of writing is to manipulate the senses, to wrest the soul free from the gruesomeness of existence and into the transcendence of being.”
― E.A. Carter

“To write of love is to feed the flames of the soul.”
― E.A. Carter

“Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

“Weapons may destroy a body, but words can vanquish a soul.”
― E.A. Carter

“It hurts. This business of life.
It kills. This business of love.”
― E.A. Carter

“From the anguish of life.
Stories of love.”
― E.A. Carter

“I would rather die than be derivative.”
― E.A. Carter

“None of my training can prepare me for this, to find her lifeless, and lost to me, forever. My jaw so tight it aches, I haul the lid up and look down.

An empty pod glares back at me.

I stand and turn full circle, unseeing, as panic wrestles my mind to the ground. I don't know if she's alive, or dead, or on the brink of dying of hunger. This is worse than trying to find her pod. A thousand million times worse. She could be anywhere. She will think she's alone, she will believe I didn't come for her, or that I didn't survive all this. And it hits me, with all the force of a star collapsing into a black hole. I wasn't there.

I. Wasn't. There.

'Blue!' I bellow into the day made into night. Anguish claws at me, tears me into shreds. To be so close to where she was and to have lost her. It's unbearable. 'Blue!' I shout with all the force of my once-military voice, fuelled by fear, dread, and the ache of my love, burned to hell.

In the distance, a startled rush erupts from the marsh, what sounds like hundreds of leathery wings against the air. Then, nothing.
I look up, wracked with hopelessness.
Through the sparse tufts of the treetops, the stars continue their relentless slide across the heavens, even though it's the middle of the day. How the fuck will I ever find her in this endless, overgrown wilderness? I won't. It's impossible. She will die and this place will bury her in its vines. I know I will never find her again.

I close my eyes and in the constellation of my mind, my pole star dies.”
― E.A. Carter, I, Cassandra

“When a woman objectifies her body, she sells a piece of her soul for the power to be seen as an object to be desired, not a person to be loved.”
― Allene vanOirschot, Daddy's Little Girl: A Father's Prayer

“Euryale could barely conceal the odium in her voice. “And their mothers allow you to enslave their children or leave them for dead?” “The mothers must survive in a world where men and gods—and men who think they are gods—limit their choices.” Charmion’s nostrils flared. “To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither.”
― Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke up to find myself alone in a dark wood.4”
― Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel

“Alas, Alexa is no serf. It is, rather, a piece of cloud-based command capital which is turning you into a serf, with your aid and by means of your own unpaid labour, in order to further enrich its owners.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

“The best artists, they are like this. You don’t shock just to shock. You create beauty, you create art. You don’t do it for attention.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“But I’m not. On the outside anyway. And it’s like I have this shifting identity. I’m not who I used to be. And ten years from now I might be somebody else altogether. Even if I never become someone’s mom or change my career or move to Idaho. My identity is different because the world responds to my physical appearance differently. And their response inadvertently changes how I see myself. And that’s kind of … crazy.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You

“It grated on me. That no one would question him moving on. Him marrying and impregnating someone more than ten years his junior. Because that’s what divorced men in their forties did. His stock was still rising. His power still intact. Daniel had become more desirable, and I somehow less so. As if time were paced differently for each of us.”
― Robinne Lee, The Idea of You