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Top 10 Edward Carey Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Carey Quote: “Why was she always so cruel, I wondered, even after I had worked so hard for her? Perhaps she needed someone beneath her to know for certain that she was not on the bottom rung. Perhaps being cruel was proof of her success.”

1. “Why was she always so cruel, I wondered, even after I had worked so hard for her? Perhaps she needed someone beneath her to know for certain that she was not on the bottom rung. Perhaps being cruel was proof of her success.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of.”

2. “What casual monsters we are. What calamities we are capable of.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “So I learned not only that your loved one may be forbidden you, given away to someone else, but also that though you love someone they may run from you, and you may open your arms but they shall not come in.”

3. “So I learned not only that your loved one may be forbidden you, given away to someone else, but also that though you love someone they may run from you, and you may open your arms but they shall not come in.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “Adults, I understand, have many faults, they are not perfect – even though they have lived longer, even though they offer themselves as examples to children. They are larger, that is certain, and size has an unearned authority. But they are easily influenced, and they can be easily swayed.”

4. “Adults, I understand, have many faults, they are not perfect – even though they have lived longer, even though they offer themselves as examples to children. They are larger, that is certain, and size has an unearned authority. But they are easily influenced, and they can be easily swayed.”

— Edward Carey

Edward Carey Quote: “During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.”

5. “During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “I collect the walks of my life. Some people have asked me if I have walked so very far to merit such an activity, but I say to them, it’s not about how far you have walked, but how thoroughly.”

6. “I collect the walks of my life. Some people have asked me if I have walked so very far to merit such an activity, but I say to them, it’s not about how far you have walked, but how thoroughly.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.”

7. “These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “What is a life? That is what we were left with: stories. They were our clothes.”

8. “What is a life? That is what we were left with: stories. They were our clothes.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.”

9. “Here is a truth: people are very fascinated by themselves.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.”

10. “Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.”

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Edward Carey Quote: “I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.”

11. “I put myself away. I came up with the great vanishing system, in which I could retreat so deep within myself that, though I might still appear the same creature, actually I was very different. I thrust all thoughts and feelings into the depths of me, where they were safe, but in an outward way I became something like an automation.”

— Edward Carey

Edward Carey Quote: “Elisabeth hungered after pain, other people’s pain to dull her own; the pain of those poor everyday people fed her life. She had become addicted to misery.”

12. “Elisabeth hungered after pain, other people’s pain to dull her own; the pain of those poor everyday people fed her life. She had become addicted to misery.”

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