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Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood.

I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go.

There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Sometimes I wondered if I might go through my whole life looking for someone who came even a little bit close

Sometimes I wondered if I might go through my whole life looking for someone who came even a little bit close

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.

Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Until the last light faded. Until the space between the tree branches and the branches themselves became the same dark thing.

Until the last light faded. Until the space between the tree branches and the branches themselves became the same dark thing.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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.

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.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: when it's only you and your sister, you can do any embarrassing thing you want.

when it's only you and your sister, you can do any embarrassing thing you want.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Who could resist the two of us all squashed into one beautiful person, right? He smiled.

Who could resist the two of us all squashed into one beautiful person, right? He smiled.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I thought of trying to catch her eye, so she'd know I understood what she'd done, but I decided not to. Everyone needs to think they have secrets.

I thought of trying to catch her eye, so she'd know I understood what she'd done, but I decided not to. Everyone needs to think they have secrets.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.

Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: How do you become someone with X-ray vision?

How do you become someone with X-ray vision?

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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

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.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two ...

Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two ...

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.

I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.

And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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 need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Hm-hm-hm, his laugh went. Like he'd swallowed the sun.

Hm-hm-hm, his laugh went. Like he'd swallowed the sun.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat.

I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.

I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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 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 quotes: 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.

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.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I didn't know how to seal a promise with a dead person.

I didn't know how to seal a promise with a dead person.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: That's one of those snapshot moments. I don't know why some memories are like that, where everything is perfectly preserved. Frozen.

That's one of those snapshot moments. I don't know why some memories are like that, where everything is perfectly preserved. Frozen.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Places we went back to so many times that they started to

Places we went back to so many times that they started to

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.

When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.

You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody.

But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Once you know a thing you can't ever unknow it.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.

She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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.

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.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.

I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

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

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Maybe when you're dead you can crawl inside other people and make them nicer than they were before.

Maybe when you're dead you can crawl inside other people and make them nicer than they were before.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4)

Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4)

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.

I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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.

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.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: 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 was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.

It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.

Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: All my parents' music came from greatest hits albums. It was like the thought of getting even one bum track was too much for them to handle.

All my parents' music came from greatest hits albums. It was like the thought of getting even one bum track was too much for them to handle.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.

Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas to last a lifetime.

Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas to last a lifetime.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors

I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I'll carry them for the rest of my days.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done.

There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I don't like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don't want to know.

I don't like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don't want to know.

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

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

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

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.

We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Beauty parlor was a game was used to play when we were little, when we were still best friends.

Beauty parlor was a game was used to play when we were little, when we were still best friends.

Carol Rifka Brunt quotes: Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart.

Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart.