Top 50 Caroline George Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The choice isn’t to move on – life moves whether I want it to or not. No, the choice is to look forward, not backward, to take a step because refusing to move won’t draw the past nearer, only postpone better days.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

3. “One’s belief cannot be allowed to suffocate under the tyranny of small minds, for hope itself does not hinge on the faith of the masses, rather the singular soul. And I hope most ardently.”

— Caroline George

4. “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.”

— Caroline George

5. “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.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

7. “Coffee first. Save the world later.”

— Caroline George

8. “People who laugh at themselves make superb company.”

— Caroline George

9. “We’re not what people have done to us. We’re not what we’ve done to ourselves. We’re not the past. We’re the future. Not what’s been done. What we’ll do.”

— Caroline George

10. “In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough.”

— Caroline George

11. “I shall not lose hope that we will meet again. Even the astronomers believe those destined to collide, whether they be stars or people, might cross paths and go their separate ways but eventually doth find themselves brought together once more. And so, I hope.”

— Caroline George

12. “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.”

— Caroline George

13. “Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places.”

— Caroline George

14. “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.”

— Caroline George

15. “To cherish my purity and set boundaries are, in my opinion, the highest forms of feminism – a woman who saves her body proves she is strong and secure enough to resist the men who seek to claim her, that she’s more than what lies between her legs.”

— Caroline George

16. “Perhaps we never stop loving someone. We just learn to move forward. To live without them because of them. Perhaps we let go to hold on.”

— Caroline George

17. “So many people waste time waiting for good things to happen to them. But sometimes we need to make good things happen. And when we finally start doing that, we often see there were good things in our lives all along.”

— Caroline George

18. “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.”

— Caroline George

19. “The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whatever time I have left sitting around and waiting for my life to get better.”

— Caroline George

20. “Marriage isn’t a fairy godmother waving a wand to change a pumpkin into a carriage. It doesn’t instantly transform people into better versions of themselves; instead, it brings couples together and asks them to use love as a reason to become better.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

22. “They didn’t save me from being alone. They saved me from thinking no one cared about my hurt.”

— Caroline George

23. “If a child falls and scrapes his knee, he does not say, “At least I didn’t break my leg.” He cries because pain causes discomfort regardless of its intensity. All pains are equal and valid, and deserving of attention.”

— Caroline George

24. “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.”

— Caroline George

25. “Missing someone is the same as breathing, I suppose. It continues until the end.”

— Caroline George

26. “Loss isn’t a textbook process. It’s different for everyone. Yeah, we want advice and steps – anything to shorten the pain. But grief can’t be hurried or pummelled with self-help. It’s just there. The only way out of it is through it.”

— Caroline George

27. “Dad tells me there’s no such thing as easy, no foolproof way to get through life unscathed. Every decision brings challenges. So, we don’t get easy. We only choose our hard. And if us is even on the table, believe me when I say you’re the easiest hard choice I’ll ever make.”

— Caroline George

28. “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.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

30. “Loving him was honest, sky blushed pink, hair stiff with salt as we raced down the beach. At fourteen, he said, “Hurting you won’t ever be my way of fixing me.” He meant it.”

— Caroline George

31. “After everything we have endured, I must cling to the belief that our stories will collide in the end. I need hope. And if I cannot hope in us, I shall lose hope in everything else.”

— Caroline George

32. “It was through words I found you. Through words, I reach you. And through words, I beg to keep you close.”

— Caroline George

33. “I know who you are,” Jack whispers. “I’ve always known you.” His hands glide up my arms, from the angles of my wrists to the creases of my elbows. He presses his mouth to my left ear – I shiver from his breath. “You’re a force to be reckoned with.”

— Caroline George

34. “GOOD shouldn’t be used to describe a girl in any way. There are good books, good food, but not good girls.”

— Caroline George

35. “I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.”

— Caroline George

36. “Sorrow is a sharable weight but a solo process.”

— Caroline George

37. “I need a day with you, then another. I need an infinite amount of last days with you because none of them, no matter what we do, will be good enough to encapsulate how much I love you.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

39. “I want to kiss him better than the girls before me. I want to make forgetting me impossible so whenever he closes his eyes, he relives this moment over and over, hands tangled in hair, lips held captive. Remembering me until I am his memory.”

— Caroline George

40. “Words give power to feelings, and not all feelings deserve power.”

— Caroline George

41. “We can forgive but we can’t forget. Whoever says otherwise hasn’t known true pain. Hear me out. Hearts are muscles, and muscles have memory. So, of course our hearts can’t forget. They remember what hurts them. They remember so they can grow stronger. I think that’s why we must remember. If we forgot the moment we forgave, we wouldn’t receive the strength that comes from hurting. And something good must come from all the bad. Something. Anything. Even the faintest good.”

— Caroline George

42. “In those pages, I belonged to him, and regardless of time and place, I’m confident he was mine.”

— Caroline George

43. “Indeed, to perish from illness while surrounded by books seems fitting, for I am more ink and paper than skin and bones.”

— Caroline George

44. “Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.”

— Caroline George

45. “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.”

— Caroline George

46. “I meant humans often fail to acknowledge the beauty around them, but their lack of notice doesn’t determine a thing’s value. Gorse does not require an audience to grow, and neither do people. We aren’t who we are because of what others see or say.”

— Caroline George

47. “I have grieved so much, but loss does not dim with practice. If anything, it gains momentum.”

— Caroline George

48. “For the sake of literature, I undressed on a page. I exposed myself in a quiet intimacy. Now I am seen and spent, and I have no more to show.”

— Caroline George

49. “All he could do was provide what she asked for – a friendship, a book, some afternoons of laughter before adulthood caught up with them. He wanted the whole story, but he’d settle for a chapter. A little of her was worth the pain of losing her.”

— Caroline George

50. “Sometimes you find a lie, and sometimes it finds you.”

— Caroline George