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Top 25 Carolyn Parkhurst Quotes (2024 Update)

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you’ve been mourning even in your sleep.”

1. “I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you’ve been mourning even in your sleep.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.”

2. “There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.”

3. “Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “It’s gratifying to know that you’ve appeared in someone else’s dreams. It’s proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.”

4. “It’s gratifying to know that you’ve appeared in someone else’s dreams. It’s proof that you exist, in a way, proof that you have substance and value outside the walls of your own mind.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “It’s true, isn’t it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.”

5. “It’s true, isn’t it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we’ll never choose. It’s only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.”

6. “Because for most of us, suicide is a moment we’ll never choose. It’s only for people like Lexy, who know they might choose eventually, who believe they have a choice to make.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “I can’t take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.”

7. “I can’t take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.”

8. “Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “It’s not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it’s the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won’t come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

9. “It’s not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart its dark color; it’s the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won’t come. And those are the things we never tell anyone at all.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can’t predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.”

10. “You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can’t predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “I’m not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.”

11. “I’m not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there’s someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.”

12. “Sometimes I wonder how we can be so sure what it is God sees. How arrogant we are, I sometimes think, to imagine there’s someone watching us every minute. To think our every action matters that much.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.”

13. “The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. “When I get to Heaven”, my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, “your grandfather won’t even recognize me.”

14. “All this to say: I am forty-three years old. I may yet live another forty. What do I do with those years? How do I fill them without Lexy? When I come to tell the story of my life, there will be a line, creased and blurred and soft with age, where she stops. If I win the lottery, if I father a child, if I lose the use of my legs, it will be after she has finished knowing me. “When I get to Heaven”, my grandmother used to say, widowed at thirty-nine, “your grandfather won’t even recognize me.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “I lie on my bed and slip into a troubled, bereft sleep full of falling women and the barking of dogs always out of sight.”

15. “I lie on my bed and slip into a troubled, bereft sleep full of falling women and the barking of dogs always out of sight.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “It occurs to me for the first time that Lorelei is getting older – she must be eight years old by now – and that I may not have unlimited time to conduct my research. Or to enjoy the quiet pleasure of her company. I will lose her someday, that much is certain, and it makes me ache to think of it. But, as all dog owners must, I put the thought quickly out of my mind.”

16. “It occurs to me for the first time that Lorelei is getting older – she must be eight years old by now – and that I may not have unlimited time to conduct my research. Or to enjoy the quiet pleasure of her company. I will lose her someday, that much is certain, and it makes me ache to think of it. But, as all dog owners must, I put the thought quickly out of my mind.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “There’s no book that absolutely everyone loves.”

17. “There’s no book that absolutely everyone loves.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Happiness, as it exists in the wild – as opposed to those artificially constructed moments like weddings and birthday parties, where it’s gathered into careful piles – is not smooth. Happiness in the real world is mostly just resilience and a willingness to arch oneself toward optimism. To believe that people are more good than bad. To believe that the waves carrying you are neither friendly nor malicious, and to know that you’re less likely to drown if you stop struggling against them.”

18. “Happiness, as it exists in the wild – as opposed to those artificially constructed moments like weddings and birthday parties, where it’s gathered into careful piles – is not smooth. Happiness in the real world is mostly just resilience and a willingness to arch oneself toward optimism. To believe that people are more good than bad. To believe that the waves carrying you are neither friendly nor malicious, and to know that you’re less likely to drown if you stop struggling against them.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Imagine that your child is born with wings.”

19. “Imagine that your child is born with wings.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “It may not be terribly fruitful to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t satisfying.”

20. “It may not be terribly fruitful to rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t satisfying.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Imagine if our lives were treated as carefully as the rest of history. Imagine if we were documented as conscientiously, preserved as gently. Each birth at least as important as a naval victory. Each death a national tragedy. There are plenty of ways to remember someone: a park bench, a colossus, an epic poem. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.”

21. “Imagine if our lives were treated as carefully as the rest of history. Imagine if we were documented as conscientiously, preserved as gently. Each birth at least as important as a naval victory. Each death a national tragedy. There are plenty of ways to remember someone: a park bench, a colossus, an epic poem. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.”

22. “The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that’s been shattered in a crash, that’s been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.”

23. “The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that’s been shattered in a crash, that’s been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it’s not simple at all.”

24. “The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it’s not simple at all.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.”

25. “Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “A crisis of faith doesn’t have to be about God. You can have a crisis of faith about dust mites and food additives that cause behavioral changes.”

26. “A crisis of faith doesn’t have to be about God. You can have a crisis of faith about dust mites and food additives that cause behavioral changes.”

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Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “We never know, do we, what our neighbors might be doing behind their fences, what love affairs and bloody rituals might be taking place right next door? The world is a more interesting place that we ever think.”

27. “We never know, do we, what our neighbors might be doing behind their fences, what love affairs and bloody rituals might be taking place right next door? The world is a more interesting place that we ever think.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Carolyn Parkhurst Quote: “The tragedy of puppies, taken from their families, all of them, never to see each other again. This is the sadness we inflict on the beasts we love.”

28. “The tragedy of puppies, taken from their families, all of them, never to see each other again. This is the sadness we inflict on the beasts we love.”

— Carolyn Parkhurst

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