Caroline Leavitt > Quotes

“Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“know,”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Gary'nin hatırlayabildiği kadarıyla Gerta,ilk defa bu kadar hassas görünüyordu.Kirpikleri titriyor,ağzı bir köşeye doğru seyiriyordu.'Mükemmel bir iş çıkarıyorsun.Otis seni çok seviyor.”
― Caroline Leavitt

“You could love many people in your life. Maybe love didn't die even when a person did, but that didn't mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.”
― Caroline Leavitt (Author), Sanctuary

“He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the
world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp
upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the
care you took with others. You could follow all the command-
ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe
you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The
truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world
worked anymore.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“The way to get free of pain is to dive down into it. To acknowledge it.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Girls in Trouble

“Always remember,” she had told him. “When you’re grown up, I want you to take your girlfriend, or your wife, or boyfriend—whoever it is you love—and you make sure they know you so well they can read your mind. You don’t even have to tell them what you need, because they already know it. If they don’t—well, it isn’t love.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“All you had of a person was what they showed you.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“I remember thinking we were going to grow old together, one of those couples who hold hands, not just to keep from falling, but because they love each other so much that they can't be without contact.”
― Caroline Leavitt, With or Without You

“still look back with wonder at that summer.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Death made you look differently at the people you loved. Their real selves weren’t there to contradict your beliefs about them. The dead became a whole other person.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“Maybe love didn’t die even when a person did, but that didn’t mean there might not be room for someone else in your heart.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“She was nauseous with hope.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“It is up to angels to show you signs and it is your job to decode the meaning. Above all, be humble and full of gratitude.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“For a moment, she wasn’t in this prison at all. She was flying, and the feeling of wonder made her laugh out loud.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Cruel Beautiful World

“she could help others, then maybe she could help herself.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the commandments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“She touched his arm, making his heart skitter. It was never a good sign when they touched you. He had seen far too many television hospital dramas to imagine what was going to come next: the lowered voice, the steady gaze, the bad news.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“China were being abandoned because of the one-child rule.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“neighborhood again, felt right to her—as if an empty space inside her were slowly being filled.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“she had to somehow be close to the one beautiful thing she had created in her life.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“street. All a car had to do was move closer, a door swing”
― Caroline Leavitt, Is This Tomorrow

“Why didn’t people belong to the ones who tried to love them?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Into Thin Air

“smells and noise and color filled Ella with wonder—”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“Having a child is, well, it’s just profound. Even as they grow, you just stop and look at them and you keep thinking in absolute wonderment, Where did you come from? How is it possible you’re here?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Pictures of You

“they’ll look at me and they’ll always wonder?”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“SIX YEARS AGO, she had lost everything. Jude. Her freedom. Her future. And her baby.”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel

“let go of the wondering,”
― Caroline Leavitt, Days of Wonder: A Novel