Caroline George Quotes

• “Coffee first. Save the world later.”

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• “Missing someone is the worst form of torture because it never goes away no matter where you are or what you do with your life. When a person is gone and all you have of them is a fuzzy recollection of what it was like to hear your phone buzz with texts from them, the joy you experienced while in their company, that instance when the bond you shared shattered, you long for all that was lost and could’ve been gained. You have memories and nothing more. And no matter how much times passes, you still feel the ache of their absence whenever they rise into your thoughts. Torture.”

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• “There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.”

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• “Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.”

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• “Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound insight. We were created to do what men can’t. And if that isn’t reason enough for us to be treated equal, I’m not sure what is.”

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• “If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of doubt in my mind. He must care.”

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• “Dogs are like that, I guess—they know how to fix you without ever saying a word.”

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• “Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.”

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• “Welcome to the apocalypse. Where make-do is a motto and life seems wrong, out-of-place. Where the weak become strong because they have no other choice.”

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• “The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang instead of unnoticed silence. We all, deep down, want to believe in a future where our historical monuments and literature hold significance. We want our deaths to be important. We want to matter.”

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• “The night was bright. He was seen.
  And she was everything.”

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• “You’re different, and I know that’s probably the most cliché response ever given, but it’s the truth. When I look at you, it’s as if I’m reading a novel. No matter how much time I spend studying your pages, there will always be more for me to learn, deeper layers of complexity to baffle me, and plot twists that’ll leave me speechless.”

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• “People have always expected the end of the world to be a dramatic, thematic event: war, disease, a sudden explosion. But what if the end of the world has already occurred? What if our final demise happened slowly, secretly … and we’ve been oblivious to it all?”

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• “I’ll cling to the hope that one day, after such a strenuous wait, I shall hold you in my arms and whisper against your lips, “My dearest, you were worth every second.”

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• “I admire your dedication to literature. I think if I could live in your thoughts . . . your mind would seem a cosy place.”

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• “I wish to be content and loved, yet I find it poetic, even romantic at times, to be sad and alone. Truly, despair adds intrigue to my otherwise dull existence.”

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• “When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.”

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• “After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.”

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• “We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”
  “But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.”

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• “She was the book he couldn’t put down.”

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• “Nobody talks about the other loss, the loss that happens within us. We lose people and things, but we also lose parts of ourselves. We grieve those missing parts too. We grieve them, and we grieve us. But I think losing those parts creates space. For newness. For understanding others’ hurts and welcoming them into our free spaces.”

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• “The missing comes in waves, some more intense than others. I miss the toothpaste globs he left in the sink, how he’d watch the morning news while I ate breakfast. I miss crying on his shoulder, talking his ears off, being the first person to hear about his good days and the first to embrace him on his bad ones. I miss the small things more than the big things because the small things proved he was mine.”

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• “Live always with the wind against your cheeks and buds of gorse tucked into your hair. Live always, and never forget where you belong.”

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• “We're a team. She's the arrow, I'm the sword. It's how we work.”

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• “I don’t want you. I love you, and that love surpasses all want in such a way I could never have you and still feel at peace. I could throw rice at your wedding, hold your firstborn, watch you live without me . . . and I’d handle it all perfectly well because love—this tether binding me to you—would endure.”

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