Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them? Carrie Jones More Quotes by Carrie Jones More Quotes From Carrie Jones We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can Carrie Jones want loss The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.” Carrie Jones care matter writing I like a lot of things that aren't good for me. Carrie Jones You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger. Carrie Jones glue stronger together Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning. Carrie Jones mourning loss people There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention. Carrie Jones fighting dust book Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on. Carrie Jones focus sometimes moving That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth. Carrie Jones love-you lying people It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown. Carrie Jones fear-of-the-unknown freak names We all have to feel empty sometimes. Carrie Jones empty feels sometimes What feels best is how I no longer hurt. Carrie Jones hurt feels Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them. Carrie Jones emotion real reason A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader? Carrie Jones guy talking looks I just think about how saying that you love someone can make your heart feel like some sort of brownie sundae, warm, gooey, sweet and good. Carrie Jones heart sweet thinking What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger. Carrie Jones fighting grief self It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering. Carrie Jones responsibility suffering war I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key. Carrie Jones dad running song Friends help friends fight pixies. Carrie Jones pixies fighting helping He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like.I like them all.Yeah?Yeah.He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water.Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other. Carrie Jones flower hands thinking I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero. Carrie Jones used mom hero
