Top 33 Carolyn Crane Quotes
#1. I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. You were so alone." He pauses. I was. I'd never felt so alone. "Nobody saw it, but I did. I always see you. And you came in that door and came up to me and everything was new.
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#2. It's all very deliciously diabolical my friend.
He smiles and I smile. We're both pretty pleased with the plan. And increasingly pleased with each other.
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#3. Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard adds.
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#4. I don't see how I could possibly move a napkin with the power of my mind," I say.
"All will be revealed."
"Did you just say, 'All will be revealed'?"
He looks up. "Yes."
"Who says, 'All will be revealed'?"
"I do," Packard says. "Just perform the task.
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#5. Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.
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#6. I chose to promote freedom and transformation." He tilts his head. "Is that a motto?" "You should get a motto, too, Packard." "A motto is a pathetic substitute for an opinion.
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#7. I nestle into him with the sensation that we're two creatures of the same species, the last two on the planet, and we've finally found one another. These moments feel expansive, like they contain everything. Like they're almost enough for a lifetime. Almost.
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#8. There is no such thing as freedom, Justine. Only prison walls that forever change shape.
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#9. He pushes my lips open with his and we sink into each other. It's crazy and wonderful every part of me is melty with desire. It's all just breath and body between us.
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#10. People want view of beauty. Pfft. I say, do not give me lies.
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#11. You wish to be free, but there is no such thing as freedom. You can redecorate dungeon to give illusion of freedom, but you are still in dungeon." "I should've had the choice." "Choice is illusion, same as happiness and freedom.
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#12. On a scale of one to ten, I'd say you rate a one. If the Porta-Potties are ten.
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#13. Are you sure we shouldn't have the cops or more guys or something?"
"Don't you worry, buttercup," Francis says. "Anything more is extra time and a herd of elephants.
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#14. Do you have no sense of decency?
He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door.
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#15. You think you're charging up that memory? Is that what you think? You are going to be so sorry when I dream about my experience of eating chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream yesterday. Now that was exciting.
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#16. Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
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#17. Then I level my smile at Simon, and this smile is one I do feel, and it's definitely an activity, too - the activity of fist suppression.
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#18. Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.
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#20. Oh." Packard steps back. "I didn't come in here for
this."
"I didn't either."
There's this silence where it seems like one of us
ought to utter a sentence that begins with the word yet.
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#21. I feel strange, like there's an unformed, unfinished, sad little emotion bottled up in me, and I need to fuck it away.
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#22. I'm used to desperate, buddy. Desperate's my factory default. But thanks anyway.
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#23. Fashion magazine disease articles. My personal Kryptonite.
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#24. Kenzo glances up from his chopping. "You look good enough to eat."
"Don't tell that to Stu's sleepwalkers," I say.
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#25. I can't say Ah now?"
"No," I say sternly.
"Even if it's purely innocent? A genuine Ah? Not even that?" He makes a pleading face. It looks silly on him; he's never been the pleading type.
He bats his cinnamon lashes once. "Not even ... "
I try not to laugh.
He keeps the face going and
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#26. If I could go back to be shot in place of Avery, I would do so."
"I know," I whisper.
"Not merely that I would do so, I would exalt to do so." She purses her lips, stares into nothing. "In both a dark and a bright way, I would exalt to take that death as my own.
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#27. Your skin was electric - I half thought there should be sparks." He lowers his voice. "I know you felt it. You looked so beautiful.
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#28. Where's he getting the bricks? Packard asks.
That's what I don't understand. He brought his own bricks?
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#29. You're right. I'm not the kind of woman to do something foolish out of defiance. I am, however, the kind of woman who would do something just to prove that you can't tell me what kind of woman I am.
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#30. A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
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#31. I'm thinking about how you sighed this little sigh when you sank into the feeling of us together. We both sank into that feeling together - I'll never forget that.
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#32. God, Packard! Do you know how hard I worked at
it?" I twist up the napkin and whip it at him.
He deflects it. "There we go; I knew you could do it."
My mouth falls open. "Very funny."
He just laughs.
"I can't believe you!
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