Top 70 Renée Carlino Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Time passes, life goes on, places change, people change.”

— Renée Carlino

2. “Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected.”

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3. “You’re all I have left. You’re holding my whole world together, Em.”

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4. “You brightened the darkest time of my life.”

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5. “No siempre podemos controlar nuestras circunstancias, quienes son nuestros padres, donde vivimos, o la cantidad de dinero que ganamos, pero en esos raros momentos en que podemos dar forma a nuestro destino, cuanto tenemos el poder de hacer nuestra propia felicidad, no podemos tener demasiado miedo de hacerlo.”

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6. “Three seconds doesn’t seem like a long time, but when you’re gazing into someone’s eyes, it’s long enough to make a silent promise.”

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7. “Things don’t make a place feel like home. People do.”

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8. “I’m a human, walking around this lonely planet, taking one breath after another, trying to decide what’s right and what’s wrong.”

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9. “It was like the universe was teasing us; we saw each other just a second too late.”

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10. “You were always with me, Grace. I never found a way to let you go.”

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11. “No one could change the past or give us back the time we had lost, and there were no words to make everything better. We just had to accept the present for what it was.”

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12. “Some men rise to the occasion and find a way to make ends meet, no matter what it takes. Other men have too much pride to see that their life is crumbling down around them.”

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13. “We can’t go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me?”

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14. “You can’t re-create the first time you promise to love someone or the first time you feel loved by another. You cannot relive the sensation of fear, admiration, self-consciousness, passion, and desire all mixed into one because it never happens twice. You chase it like the first high for the rest of your life.”

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15. “I wanted to wrap him up in a blanket and put him in my pocket for safekeeping.”

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16. “Isn’t that all we need to hear sometimes – that you’re a good mom or friend or daughter or wife?”

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17. “It was dawn and the light coming through the window was a dull blue. It was peaceful, like a fading memory.”

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18. “The only thing you can do is choose the person you love, be kind to others, and make your brutally short stint on earth as pleasant as possible.”

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19. “I felt it for Grace before I even had a name for it. I might have said the word a million times, but it sounded different now that I meant it. When I thought about what we had, it didn’t matter that it was just friendship. I loved her.”

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20. “Love is a wordless secret; it’s an inside joke. Only the two of you have to understand it.”

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21. “I was convinced we had lived twenty thousand lives, and in each one, we had found each other, like two tiny magnets in a drawer the size of the universe.”

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22. “The present is our own. The right-this-second, the here-and-now, this moment before the next, is ours for the taking. It’s the only free gift the universe has to offer.”

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23. “People shouldn’t lie to each other to begin with. People shouldn’t have to fear hell in order to tell the truth. They should fear that their lies will ruin relationships or get them in trouble, here now, on Earth, with the people they love.”

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24. “I was learning the hard way what happens when you take the people who love you for granted.”

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25. “Would they have carried on with their lonely lives, living like two halves of one heart, just out of reach of each other?”

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26. “You’re my first muse, Grace.”

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27. “That’s why my mother always said we memorialize our past. Everything seems better in a memory.”

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28. “If you told me I could have another life, a longer life, but that I couldn’t have you, I’d say no thanks. I’d take you and my short life over and over again.”

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29. “It’s okay to be lonely sometimes.”

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30. “Life was passing me by at high speed as I sat back with my feet up, rejecting change, ignoring the world, shrugging off anything that threatened to have meaning of relevance.”

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31. “It’s time.” He opened his arms and I rushed into them with such force, like I was trying to jump inside of him so he could take me along, a stowaway inside his heart. He squeezed me hard and for a long time. “I’ll see you, Grace.” We let go of each other and stepped apart. “I’ll see you later, Matt.” He smiled and walked away.”

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32. “I believe you have to protect your relationship with God more than any other, Charlotte. Whether you believe in God or not, whether you think God is terrible, truly divine, or absolutely nonexistent, it is the most sacred and intimate relationship we have in our lives.”

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33. “We memorialize our past. Everything seems better in a memory.”

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34. “Rules are for people with the luxury of time.”

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35. “This is the right time, I promise; this is our time.”

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36. “His smile was a pitying, sad kind of smile, reserved only for when a person knows there’s nothing that can be said to make things right.”

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37. “We can’t always control our circumstances, who our parents are, where we live, or how much money we make, but in those rare moments when we can shape our fate, when we do have the power to make our own happiness, we can’t be too scared to do it.”

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38. “As he read he mouthed the words, the way a child reads silently.”

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39. “As long as there is love in this world, we will be a part of it.”

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40. “Everything seems better in a memory.”

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41. “New York has an energy that takes root inside of you. Even a transplant like me gets to know the different boroughs, like they’re living, breathing organisms. There’s nowhere else like it. The city becomes a character in your life, a love you can’t take out of you. The mysteriously human element about this place can make you fall in love and break your heart at the same time.”

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42. “For my Em. Don’t wait this long. Come let me love you.”

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43. “My sister-in-law could win an award for figurative ball size.”

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44. “I’m really into girls with big platelets.”

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45. “Poetry is just evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

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46. “It’s impossible to really hate someone if you don’t love them at least a little.”

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47. “Was I guilty of choosing safety over happiness and freedom, like the character in the book?”

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48. “Different people connect to different parts of our souls.”

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49. “Sometimes love can be easier to find than purpose, but I don’t think it’s any less important.”

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50. “This could be the best thing for us, after it stops being the worst.”

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