Top 35 Carley Fortune Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I don’t take things for granted anymore. I don’t take people for granted. And I know time is not infinite.”

— Carley Fortune

2. “Some people are lucky like that. They meet their best friend, the love of their life, and are wise enough to never let go.”

— Carley Fortune

3. “You’re still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known.”

— Carley Fortune

4. “It’s not selfish to want something for yourself. It’s human.”

— Carley Fortune

5. “Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.”

— Carley Fortune

6. “I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem big enough for how I felt.”

— Carley Fortune

7. “I’d wish you luck, but you don’t need it.”

— Carley Fortune

8. “You and me are special,” he started. “There’s no one else I’d rather spend time with than you. There’s no one else I’d rather talk to than you. And there’s no one else I’d rather kiss than you.”

— Carley Fortune

9. “Sometimes I felt sure he was – like there was an invisible, unbreakable string that ran between us, stretching vast distances and keeping us joined.”

— Carley Fortune

10. “The way I felt about you was always so clear to me – even when we were young I knew you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a whole. I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem big enough for how I felt.”

— Carley Fortune

11. “It was my mom who saved my life, but it was Will who helped me figure out how to make it my own.”

— Carley Fortune

12. “Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don’t particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Baxter, are my favorite of all of them.”

— Carley Fortune

13. “My mom likes one-syllable names for boys – like Sam and Charles.”

— Carley Fortune

14. “He tastes like coffee and maple syrup and coming home after a long day.”

— Carley Fortune

15. “I did want you. I do want you. I’ve always wanted you.”

— Carley Fortune

16. “I don’t want you to ever feel like you have to do anything you don’t want to with any boy, no matter how nice he is. There’s no rush. And anyone who wants to rush isn’t worth rushing for.”

— Carley Fortune

17. “I pay attention to a lot of things about you, Percy Fraser.”

— Carley Fortune

18. “A summer away from everything, where I could read my books without worrying about being called a freak and swim whenever I wanted to, felt like heaven.”

— Carley Fortune

19. “I am fun! I just don’t want to talk about what keeps me awake at night. I don’t want to reveal how I’m beginning to question whether climbing the ladder has made me happy, how sometimes I long to write but can’t seem to find the courage, or how lonely I sometimes feel.”

— Carley Fortune

20. “The way I felt about you was always so clear to me – even when we were young I knew you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a whole.”

— Carley Fortune

21. “I spent just one day with Will, and it changed my life I once thought he might be my soulmate. I thought he and I would be here together under very different circumstances.”

— Carley Fortune

22. “You’re my best friend, Percy. Please be my family.”

— Carley Fortune

23. “Three weeks went by as if they were seconds, and my dread formed roots in my feet and grew branches that spread to my shoulders and arms.”

— Carley Fortune

24. “You and me in one year, Fern Brookbanks. Don’t let me down.”

— Carley Fortune

25. “We’re not the same people we were at twenty-two. It’s okay to want different things.”

— Carley Fortune

26. “My feet crunched on the driveway, the air heavy with dew and the lush smell of moss, fungi, and damp earth.”

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27. “It’s not every day you decide to change your entire life.”

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28. “He leans forward, twisting his ring. ‘You do that a lot,’ I say. Will assesses me from the corner of his eye. ‘Who gave it to you?’ ‘My grandmother,’ he says after a moment. ‘It was my grandfather’s.’ ‘You were close.’ ‘With my grandmother, yeah. You remember?’ A hint of a smile graces his lips, and I want to hook my thumbs on the corner of his mouth and pull the edges up higher. ‘Of course,’ I say quietly. ‘I remember everything.”

— Carley Fortune

29. “Will tells me how lucky he is to have met his soulmate eleven years ago, and even luckier to have found me again. He tells me I’m his best friend. He tells me he never thought it was possible to be as happy as he is now, with me. He tells me I’m the bravest person he knows. He tells me he loves my loyalty and my playlists and my nose. He tells me he loves me best of all.”

— Carley Fortune

30. “My headphones were both my therapist and my invisibility cloak.”

— Carley Fortune

31. “I rue the day he was born. I rue the people who held each other close nine months before that. I do a lot of rue-ing as I lie there. I.”

— Carley Fortune

32. “I also know I’ve gone more years without Sam than I spent with him.”

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33. “Yeah. I like how the space is so overwhelming, it makes you feel insignificant and alive at the same time. It basically forces you to take a deep breath. It’s the same way I feel when I look at the mountains out West.” I thought it was the loveliest thing I’d ever heard.”

— Carley Fortune

34. “You’re not an escape. You’re everything.”

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35. “She told me to call you,” he says, serious again. I stop breathing. “Before she died. She said he’d need you after.”

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36. “It’s Charlie.” Charlie. Not Sam. Charlie. The wrong brother.”

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37. “Sometimes I think no one gets me the way you do.”

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38. “I liked how each book was both predictable and unique, comforting and unexpected. Safe but never boring.”

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39. “Boys are fun. Lots of fun. But don’t let one stand in the way of your greatness.”

— Carley Fortune