Top 100 Carrie Jones Quotes
#1. Issie?"
After a second her voice comes out small and tired. "I'm not here."
"Oh." I back up so I can stare at the bathroom door. No feet. "Then I should probably freak out because the toilet is talking back to me, huh? A little too many pain meds for Zara today.
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#2. I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?
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#3. I want you to want me because you want me, not because of grief, not because he is not here. I want you to love me for me. I want you to kiss me first and not because you need me to help you, but because you need to kiss me.
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#4. A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader?
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#5. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
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#6. I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.
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#7. Her arms quiver from holding the bowl. She must truly love him to hold that bowl for so very long. There must be something isdeof him that is worthy of that kindness
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#8. Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.
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#9. I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me.
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#10. That is Nick Colt, otherwise known as bad news.
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#11. I turn back to the lake, stare at the ice slowly moving on the surface of the water. Pieces of the solid fall into the liquid, but it's all just water no matter what its form.
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#12. I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.
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#13. I'll have you eating healthy eventually.
Probably so. Seems like I'll do about anything for you.
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#14. I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.
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#15. What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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#16. So, I'm a bear," she explains, eyeing us all. "Wait? Is Issie something?"
"Nope," Issie pouts. "All human. All the time."
"The coolest human ever," Devyn says, reaching down and ruffling her hair.
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#17. You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.
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#18. Maybe," he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, "she took advantage of me.
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#20. There are so many layers inside of people, so much soul pain and angsty depth and heart hurt, and some ... hide all this so well that when it comes out in an action as simple as a nod, your entire world shifts a little bit on its axis.
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#21. If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White
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#22. Now. Put it in forward."
"Okay, just don't hurt Yoko." "Yoko?"
"My car." "You named your car Yoko? As in Ono?"
"You have a better name?" "How about Subaru?
"I'm shifting!
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#23. You're perfect,aren't you?"
"I am a werewolf," he says between bites. He bends his head.
"That just gives you a totally good excuse for your pathetic temper."
He wiggles his eyebrows. "True.
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#25. Sometimes the monsters are not monsters, she says.
I know. I nod. And sometimes the monsters are within us all, even in those we think are most good.
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#26. It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself
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#27. If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line
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#28. There are people who like cute, furry things and people who eat cute, furry things
-Issy, pag. 53
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#29. He takes a pick out of it and starts cleaning his nails.
"Nice intimidation tactic," I say. "Very textbook. I'd expect something more original from pixies.
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#30. Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.
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#31. A tiny part of my heart is so happy to see him safe and laughing, but the other part is a black pit that threatens to suck all of me into it. He is happy without me. He is laughing without me. But what about me?
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#33. Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid ...
"It is life magic".
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#34. We teleported," Issie finishes. "Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever if you think of the Tardis! Holy canola! That is just the coolest thing ever! Wowie, wow, wow!
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#36. She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?"
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.
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#37. No one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?
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#38. Friedrich Nietzsche says, He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
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#39. I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is - she's a hero.
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#40. I tucked the charred piece of her sweatshirt i had recovered into the back pocket of my jeans. I am glad she is with me now. Nick's anklet touches my skin. He is here too.
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#41. Boys are stupid. That's all there is to it. Boys are just stupid.
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#43. Mrs Nix smacks herself in the head again. If she keeps that up she'll bruise
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#44. Okay, little car, you are protesting roads. They are death traps for animals. They are environmentally unsound impervious surfaces that cause runoff. I understand this. But could we protest in the summer?
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#45. We all need a little bit of rescuing from time to time. It doesn't make us weak.
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#46. He's not my boyfriend."
"Ha. That's a good one. I saw you two tonsil surfing out there."
I could kill her. "I don't even have tonsils!"
"I know that and I bet Nick knows that too, now." She slaps her leg because she's just too funny for words.
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#47. Maybe he wants you to be his queen," Devyn saids. "Continue the line."
"That's crap," Nick says.
"Yeah." I glare at him. "Why would anyone want me to be their queen?"
"That's not what I meant." The front legs of Nick's chair slam back down.
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#48. Where'd the dog go?" I ask, sounding panicky.
"That wasn't a dog, Zara," he says, words whisper strong.
I jerk my head up. "What was it then? A cat? A gerbil? A geriatric hamster?
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#49. Pain shoots through my head. fireworks. explosions. all inside my brain. the white world goes dark and i know what's about to happen. i'm the one leaving. i am the one gone.
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#50. It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.
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#52. Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?
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#53. She is a beautiful creature, but beauty doesn't equal good and it certainly doesn't equal sane.
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#54. Issie asks, "Why iron?"
Devyn goes into full geek mode and answers before I can, "Iron is one of the last elements that is created by stellar nucleosynthesis."
I have no idea what he just said.
Neither does anone else.
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#55. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
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#56. I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.
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#57. There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.
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#58. Zara White, since when has love ever not mattered?
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#59. You are totally kissable. If I were a guy or gay or bi or something I would absolutely kiss you.
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#60. Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it.
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#61. We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can
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#62. My eyes meet his eyes.
"You were a jerk," I say.
His hands move to my cheeks. "I'm sorry."
I pull away, but I can only go an inch before I bump into lacrosse sticks, not that I really want to go any farther. "Nope. No way. You do not get to kiss me yet."
He pouts.
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#63. A part of me does not want to think that I always knew something was wrong.=. This is probably the same part that didn't look at the evidence that was right before my eyes, and even though I know this, it does not stop me from defending the fairy tale.
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#64. Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.
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#65. Anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home.
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#66. I lean back down and press my lips against his" you're going to be safe. i swear.i'll keep you safe."
his lips move beneath mine." I love you." his eyes are strong for a second, intense Nick eyes."I will always love you no matter what."
"we'll always love each other," i say
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#67. Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.
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#68. Opening my eyes takes effort, but it's worth it to see him, right there in front of me. He's so beautiful,golden. It's so hokey, but it's how he is. He is warmth to me.
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#69. Perfection is some mythical state that we can never achieve
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#70. Monsters? Why? Because we admit to the pain we cause? Admit we like it? ...
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#71. Pixiophobia: a fear of Pixies.
I made this up, but believe me it should be a word because it sure is a legitimate fear.
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#72. That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..
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#73. Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?
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#75. This guy named Ian that I met at school. He wants to go to the DMV with me."
She hands me a plate to dry. "Well, there's true love."
I snort.
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#76. It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.
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#77. She is really nice and everything, but totally not made of awesome the way Issie is.
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#78. His reddish hair is rumpled, but in a deliberate I'm-in-a-boy-band way.
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#79. I like a lot of things that aren't good for me.
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#80. You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?"
I cringed. "Then I wimped out.
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#81. A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.
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#82. Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe.
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#83. And this time Zara White," he says, " this time it is my turn to rescue you." - Astley
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#85. Mom, I promised to behave. It wasn't easy. I mean, she couldn't help herself. She was all over this hunk of Navajo manhood and I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me. Eventually she wore herself out and fell asleep.
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#86. It was by Anandamayi Ma: Be anchored in fearlessness. What is worldly life but fear!
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#87. Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.
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#88. Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows ... it knows we can never reach it.
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#89. The only thing that scares me now is me.
The [person] I might become. The [person] I dont ever want to be.
Everybody has fears, right? But how many have my fear?
Enough, it seems. Because there's a name for it.
Autophobia.
Fear of oneself.
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#91. They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
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#92. Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
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#93. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hope, quests and suffering
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#94. Know that I love you, that I always will love you no matter what choices you make, what paths you have chosen, and what paths you choose in the future.
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#96. Occasionally her tongue darts out between her lips, which makes me think of a snake, or Jared Leto during a television interview.
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#97. I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.
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#98. Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.
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#99. Pixies have to be invited in, like vampires. I read it on the Internet."
"Well, there you go," I mutter. "Then it must be true.
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#100. There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.
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