Quotes of Anna Carey

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“You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like thatperson matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“A relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don’t. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“Love was death’s only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“did he know that he worked his way into my dreams, where i missed him even in sleep” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“You do anything for the person you love,” she said finally. "And then when you don’t think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to.” ― Anna Carey, Once
“He especially loved people - is so happy, especially remembering Eloise.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I love you, I love you, I love you.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I didn’t know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I've fallen in love with you," he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.” ― Anna Carey, Once
“Time itself is neutral.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I’d always supposed I was ever man’s type.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“I let the wound fester and grow, feeding on the silence between us. I learned then a crucial truth: that a relationship between two people can be judged by the list of things unspoken between them.” ― Anna Carey, Eve
“What are you doing with all these books?" I asked, stepping towards a tall stack on the floor. I ran my fingers down the spines, recognizing a few familiar titles from School: Heart of Darkness, The Great Gatsby, and To the Lighthouse.Caleb came beside me, his warm shoulder brushing against mine. "I do this funny thing sometimes," she said, shooting me a mischievous grin. "I open a book, and I look at each page. It's called reading” ― Anna Carey, Eve
Anna Carey
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Anna Carey

Anna Carey has been a gift wrapper, face painter, nanny, horrific cocktail waitress, sofa saleswoman and children's book editor. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where…

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