Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.

You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.

It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.

That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you know only the very best people, then you won't care if you die tomorrow.