Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes

#1. Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there's someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.

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#2. This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around you. Do it now. See? It's nothing but air.

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#3. All I wanted for the rest of my life was to keep making her laugh like that.

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#4. It's gratifying to know that you've appeared in someone else's dreams. It's proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.

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#5. I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.

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#6. There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

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#7. Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we'll never choose. It's only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.

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#8. It's not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.

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#9. It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.

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#10. There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.

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#11. I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

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#12. Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.

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#13. Imagine that your child is born with wings.

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#14. I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it ... Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.

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#15. The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

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#16. You are my finest knight

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#17. I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

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#18. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

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