Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

Cracks

Eye

Fall

Don’t you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

Doe

Ends

Wounds

Here’s the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.

Hate

Jobs

Mean

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still…

Beast

Life Is

Sweet

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

Ifs

Mirrors

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Faults

Greed

May

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Black

Despair

Giving

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Laughter

Light

Powerful

Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully

Feet

Matter

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don’t allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

Long

People

Writing

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Beast

Black

Block

Brother

Chairs

Cracks

Cry

Demand

Despair

Doe

Dog

Dream

Ends

Evil

Eye

Fall

Faults

Fear

Feet

Forget

Friendship

Girl

Giving

Good And Evil

Greed

Happened

Hate

Heart

Ideas

Ifs

Insanity

Insightful

Jobs

Laughter

Life Is

Light

Long

Love

Love Is

Lying

Magic

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Mirrors

Mother

Order

People

Powerful

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Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

Don’t you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still…

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully

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