Anna Carey Quotes

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

~ Anna Carey

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

~ Anna Carey

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.

~ Anna Carey

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.

~ Anna Carey

I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

~ Anna Carey

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.

~ Anna Carey

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.

~ Anna Carey