You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches. Carol Rifka Brunt More Quotes by Carol Rifka Brunt More Quotes From Carol Rifka Brunt I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple. Carol Rifka Brunt lightcitiesrain 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. Carol Rifka Brunt woodsmachineschance After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. Carol Rifka Brunt beersnowbeautiful It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another. Carol Rifka Brunt one-thinghardbelieve It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything,. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size....I figured on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed. Carol Rifka Brunt tunnelschoiceswould-be 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. Carol Rifka Brunt weightlifeworld The kinds of things I want don't cost money. Carol Rifka Brunt costkindwant Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see. Carol Rifka Brunt classtryingpeople There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days. Carol Rifka Brunt blackdarkheart If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now. Carol Rifka Brunt filmifs You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love? Carol Rifka Brunt embarrassingjunethinking That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space. Carol Rifka Brunt eyedarkthinking
