Carol Rifka Brunt said this quote

“ I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half the size. . . . I figured that, on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed. ”

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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.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

~ Carol Rifka Brunt