Anna Carey Quotes

I didn't know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback.

I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.

Time itself is neutral.

We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

Only boring people get bored.

What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.

I bet Aaron swims the fastest," Benny said, squeezing my hand. "He's like a fish.

When you missed someone you became them, that you did things to fill the space they'd left so you wouldn't feel so alone. Standing

Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don't. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.

Love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: your life is worth seeing.

Happiness is a moment.

Loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.

There was something about that
word - we - that comforted me. There was no longer him. There was no
longer me. There was us.

Love was death's only adversary, the only thing powerful enough to combat its clawing, desperate grasp.

It was all for a moment. It was all too good to be missed.

Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.
"I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.
"I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.
They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees.

I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.

I'd stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.

Memories can ruin you if you let them.

You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like that
person matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.

-loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.
-Caleb (Benny)