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Category: Carol Rifka Brunt

Carol Rifka Brunt

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

impossible, love, love-hurts, unrequited-love

Carol Rifka Brunt

If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the cold stone wall of the church, you can pretend you’re in the Middle Ages. That’s why I did it. That’s what I was in it for.

imagination, melancholy, music

Carol Rifka Brunt

When people mentioned it to me, they thought they were talking about some casual relative of mine. For most people that’s what an uncle was. They had no idea how I felt about Finn. No idea that hearing them talk about AIDS, like that was the important part of the story–more important than who Finn was, or how much I loved him, or how much he was still breaking my heart every single hour of every single day–made me want to scream.

Carol Rifka Brunt

But you don’t know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me.

Carol Rifka Brunt

I suppose I’m in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

dreams, life-and-living, waiting-to-live

Carol Rifka Brunt

It’s the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven’t done everything they want to do. They think they haven’t had enough time. They feel they’ve been shortchanged.

life-and-living, time-passing

Carol Rifka Brunt

I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon.

Carol Rifka Brunt

You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.

Carol Rifka Brunt

I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I’m sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

future, heartbreak, inspirational

Carol Rifka Brunt

You know, Junie, you’re fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich. …The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that sandwich. If she knew that I’d searched and searched the house until I finally found the little key to the fireproof box buried in the bottom of her underwear drawer, if she knew that I’d unlocked the box and taken my passport out, that I had it with me right that very second in a Ziploc bag in the bottom of my backpack, if she knew why I had it there, if she knew even a bit of all that, she might have made me that PBJ. She wouldn’t have said, “You’re fourteen now,” like she thought I was some kind of responsible adult. No. If she knew about my plan, she would have said, “you’re only fourteen.” She would have told me that I was crazy to think about going to England with I was only fourteen.

children, context, parents, perception

Carol Rifka Brunt

That’s the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours–

children, mean, parents, sibling-rivalry, sisters

Carol Rifka Brunt

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

love, unrequited-love