Carol Rifka Brunt

“There was something so electric about it. So dangerous. Those little touches were everything. I lived fro them. You can build a…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong,…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I wasn't interested in drinking beer or vodka or smoking cigarettes or doing all the other things Greta thinks I can't even…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Things you'd never even seen with Finn could remind you of him, because he was the one person you'd want to show.…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I didn’t want to care, but somehow, like always, I did. She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“What kind of party?” “The good kind.” “Yeah, right.” Greta knows that for me there are no good parties. I’m okay with…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I stared out the window for the rest of the journey. Building, tree, car, car, van, wall, vacant lot, van. I stared…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“Greta knows that for me there are no good parties. I’m okay with one or two people, but more than that and…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.”

— Carol Rifka Brunt

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“They segued into a more general piece about AIDS. As usual, they started out with footage of some kind of sweaty nightclub…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“The walls of the tunnels were covered with so much dirt, it was almost like fur. I thought those tunnels were the…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy…

— 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…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always make sure you…

— 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…

— Carol Rifka Brunt