Quotes from Carol Rifka Brunt

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn't have. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.