Quote by Caroline Leavitt Download Open image ““Which is worse, she thinks, waiting for the sting, or the sting itself?”” — Caroline Leavitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.” — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
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“... and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
“I lifted the hem of my shorts and set the blade against the skin of my outer thigh, and, though my pulse roared in… — Kristen Mae Copy Share Image
“thinking: I don’t want my little girl to come out blind or gouged up. I’m not cheap, I’m scared. It’s the story of my… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, to live your life, you had to protect yourself against what other people might take from you.” — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters. — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Never. Ever. Give. Up. No doesn't always mean no. Sometimes it's just takes a little work to find the yes.” — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
