Top 50 Caroline George Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

6. “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

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

— Caroline George

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

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

— Caroline George

12. “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

13. “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

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

— Caroline George

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

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

— Caroline George

19. “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

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

— Caroline George

21. “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

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

— Caroline George

23. “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

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

— Caroline George

25. “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

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

— Caroline George

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

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

— Caroline George

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

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

— Caroline George

37. “We don’t choose people. Our hearts do. And they’re little saboteurs, always trying to get themselves broken.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

39. “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

40. “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

41. “Funny how perfection can mean a million things. Tonight, it’s a boy and supermarket salads, the air tasting of salt and second chances, and a butterfly feeling in my chest.”

— Caroline George

42. “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

43. “The night seemed varnished with a golden sheen. Carriages rounded the manor’s drive, their horses pounding gravel as if to applaud the parade. One by one, gentry clothed in satin and velvet emerged from their boxes. They bid adieu to their drivers and flocked to the main house, glittering like jewels in the torchlight.”

— Caroline George

44. “Yes, I still believe a topsy-turvy posture boosts the absorption of literature.”

— Caroline George

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

— Caroline George

46. “As he attempted to wrap his mind around the truth, something collapsed within him as if he had constructed a mansion of cards-a cathedral of dreams- and with a breath, it tumbled down.”

— Caroline George

47. “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

48. “When you find a truth that surpasses your desire to fit trends and meet approval, you can be certain it’s worth fighting to spread.”

— Caroline George

49. “We take from books what we bring to them.”

— Caroline George

50. “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