Top 51 Carolee Dean Quotes
#1. Do you ever look at the people around you and wonder how you ended up with them?
Carolee Dean
#2. I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to write them down. I've tried, but most of the time my thoughts and my feelings are bigger than what I can get on paper.
Carolee Dean
#3. Hey, aren't you that guy who fixes cars?" Katie asked,
looking at my grease-covered work pants as if she couldn't believe I ever left the garage.
"Yeah, they let me out every now and then," I said.
Carolee Dean
#4. What happened?"
"I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn't work out."
"The world ain't set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind.
Messes up the natural order, otherwise.
Carolee Dean
#5. I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe in myself.
Carolee Dean
#7. I Know a girl with sea green eyes. She melts the sun, swallows the sky then breathes out stars to kiss the night so guys like me will have some light, she doesn't know the things I've dome. but if a girl like that could love me, i might be clean again
Carolee Dean
#8. Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
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#9. As long as you're breathing, there's still hope.
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#10. Dude, there should be a law against people singing that bad.
Carolee Dean
#11. TIME
Time
goes round and round
the spinning clock,
until the fateful day
time
folds it's tired hands
and
stops.
Carolee Dean
#12. As soon as I left one town, I was in another, each one a totally different world, as if an invisible box surrounded its edges, keeping everybody in their proper place.
The rich stayed rich. The poor stayed poor. The troublemakers stayed in trouble.
Carolee Dean
#13. A man's beliefs are his destiny. As soon as my father believed his life was over, it was.
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#14. Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
Carolee Dean
#15. We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.
Carolee Dean
#16. We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.
Carolee Dean
#17. When I get to the part about Jess kissing me on the Fourth of July and taking me to her beach house,I look at my father and wonder what it is like, seeing people only through a wall of glass. Never touching them.
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#18. They say money changes you. it isn't true. it changes everybody around you.
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#19. I have learned there is more than one way to die.
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#20. Never, never give up what is rightfully yours.
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#21. Figure out what truth you're hidin' that you can't admit even to yourself
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#22. I used to think that words and music could change the world, but look at the people who have made it. You see their faces all over the tabloids talking about their latest stint in rehab
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#23. I was
holding her
and she was
holding me.
Couldn't see
we both were
going down.
When holding on
is the only thing
you've got,
how can you know
this is how lovers drown?
Carolee Dean
#24. I don't want to even think about what kind of creatures could be lurking out there in the dark in the middle of the sticks. Probably the same ones lurking around during the day, but I've learned that dangerous things like to wait till night to surface, when you can't see the coming.
Carolee Dean
#25. My head was spinning. I felt like I'd been drifting, lost at sea all my life, and now that I'd found dry land, I couldn't quite get my bearings.
Carolee Dean
#26. I have a class in Hermosa Beach that starts at eight, but ...
I wanted to offer to pick up her car, drive her back to Hermosa Beach, take her to the moon.
Carolee Dean
#27. Don't be afraid to say how you feel, Dylan. Holding things inside is what gets people in trouble.
Carolee Dean
#28. So quit asking everybody else questions, unless you're ready to answer some questions yourself.
Carolee Dean
#29. I carry a message
that i can not read.
the words may be haunting ,
or tender or sweet.
though what it says,
i don not know.
i still carry it with me ,
where ever i go.
Carolee Dean
#31. The road less traveled might just be the ride of your life!
Carolee Dean
#32. Where we goin'? Wade whispers to me as we approach the white picket fence that surrounds the row of wooden crosses.
For all I know my grandmother could be planning to shoot us and bury us with the rest of the family, but I don't think it would help to share this notion with Wade
Carolee Dean
#33. Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death.
They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse.
There is silence.
Carolee Dean
#34. I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I had to pinch myself, because I figured either I was dreaming or else I'd died and gone to heaven - which given my history was probably not where I'd end up.
Carolee Dean
#35. It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up waiting and watching for my father or Santa Claus, whoever came first.
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#36. This is what love is. Not the moments on the beach, or under the stars or the trees, or in the moonlight. Love is sitting together in the quiet, waiting for death to come.
Knowing you're not alone.
Carolee Dean
#37. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.
Carolee Dean
#38. How far can you go down the wrong path before you can't get back on the right one?
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#39. The mind can only remember what it's willing to remember - because if you are guilty, then the truth is not the thing that sets you free. It's the thing that gets you locked away.
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#40. The Road
Life isn't a destination
It's a journey.
But you gotta be heading somewhere
or you're just a mouse
going round.
Even if
the place you wind up
isn't the place
you where bound
Carolee Dean
#41. Want me to drive?" Wade asks. "I won't take any detours."
I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. "Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour," I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can't help it. I start to cry.
Carolee Dean
#42. So don't ask no questions. Too much truth can be bad.
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#43. Blood never forgets. It has a memory of an ancient path toward home.
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#44. WORDS
I carry a message
that i cannot read.
The words may be haunting
or tender or sweet.
Thought what it says
I do not know,
I still carry it with me,
wherever i go.
Carolee Dean
#45. Reading about how i live, you might assume i am some kind of psychopath, the sort of beast that must be locked away from society. But the truth is that I'm not tat different from you. Not very different at all.
And that should scare the hell out of you
Carolee Dean
#46. Every clock is a bomb, ticking away at the minutes of our lives, counting off the seconds one by one before we die.
At birth a heart it given a certain number of beats. The clock is counting them off one by one and will not allow a man any more than his allotted share.
Carolee Dean
#47. Testimony to her belief that life could be managed if things were only kept in their proper places.
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#48. It is hard to believe that a place this small can hold so much hate, and I have the terrible feeling I've only just seen the surface.
Carolee Dean
#49. Is she worth all that pain?" he asked me, smiling.
"Definitely," I said, still reeling from the events of the day.
"But I don't deserve her."
"Then be somebody who does."
"That's what I intend to do.
Carolee Dean
#50. But thinkin' you owe people is dangerous business.
Carolee Dean
#51. To my son Dylan.
I've written this book for you.
It's a guide for how not to live your life.
I'm sending it out into the world in the hopes
that someday it will find you.
Even if I never do.
All my love,
Dad
Carolee Dean
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