Anna Carey Quotes

#1. I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.

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#2. A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.

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#3. It was all for a moment. It was all too good to be missed.

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#4. I love you, I love you, I love you.

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#5. -loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny)

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#6. What sort of funny songs?"
"My balls are swearing my balls are swearing I can't keep my balls from sweating ohhh no."
"How is that funny?" I asked.
"As in the balls of your feet?"
"No, it's like this thing ... Never mind," he said.

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#7. You do anything for the person you love," she said finally. "And then when you don't think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to.

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#8. I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

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#9. Loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.

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#10. I didn't know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback.

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#11. Memories can ruin you if you let them.

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#12. Time itself is neutral.

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#13. When you missed someone you became them, that you did things to fill the space they'd left so you wouldn't feel so alone. Standing

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#14. Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

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#15. What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.

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#16. Only boring people get bored.

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#17. The only two people who can understand a relationship are the two people in it,

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#18. Love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing.

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#19. I loved every part of him. The smell of his skin, the scar on his cheek, the feel of his fingers pressing into my back. The way he could tell what I was thinking just by looking at me.

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#20. We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

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#21. I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

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#22. Almost two hundred years ago, Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom. And when they told her they didn't think they could, when they said they were too afraid, she pointed a gun at them and said" - Marjorie mimed a weapon in her grasp - "Go forward or die.

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#23. Did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep

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#24. I'd stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.

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#25. You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.

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#26. Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.

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#27. I bet Aaron swims the fastest," Benny said, squeezing my hand. "He's like a fish.

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#28. There was something about that
word - we - that comforted me. There was no longer him. There was no
longer me. There was us.

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#29. I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

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#30. It does not in any way, shape, or form resemble Winnie the Pooh.

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#31. He especially loved people - is so happy, especially remembering Eloise.

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#32. There are millions of stars, each one shining and burning out at the same time. They die like everything else - you have to appreciate them before they're gone

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#33. Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don't. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.

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#34. If The Islands South Ever Vanish, Even Further Into Navy Depths, My Eloise Could Appreciate Lovly Endless Blues.

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#35. The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I'd always supposed I was ever man's type.

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#36. I've fallen in love with you, he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.

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#37. Happiness is a moment.

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