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Carrie Jones is an American author, known for her work in young adult fiction. She has written both fantasy and non-fantasy novels, including the paranormal series Need. Jones has received multiple awards and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.

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Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows. . . it knows we can never reach it.

Crazy, Perfect, Taunting, Think, Thinking, Though

What we do, our choices, that's what defines us

Choices, Defines, Our Choices

There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention.

Against, Attention, Book, Dust, Fighting

What feels best is how I no longer hurt.

Feels, Hurt, Longer

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

Together, Stronger, Glue, Fractures, Back, Know

I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

Damsel, Distress

I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.

Amnesty, Dad, John, Running, See, Song

Why are there no names for the abscence of things? Why is there no name for the abscence of humanity?

Abscence, Humanity, Name, Names, Things

We all have to feel empty sometimes.

Empty, Feels, Sometimes

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

Live, Loss, Losses, Want

Friends help friends fight pixies.

Fight, Fighting, Help, Helping, Pixies

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

Emotion, Emotions, Real, Reason, Reasons

He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. I didn't know what kind of flowers you like. I like them all. Yeah?Yeah. He tries to hand them to me, but then remembers the cast. I'll put them in water. Betty swoops in the room ridiculously fast and she grabs the flowers out of Nick's hands. I'll take care of them. You lovebirds just sit on the couch and think swooning things at each other.

Flower, Hands, Room, Things, Thinking, Tries

I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.

People

It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

Love, Protects, Responsibility, Suffering, War

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

Affects, Becomes, Loss, Mourning, People

Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?

Everyone, Wrong

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is-she's a hero.

Embarrassed, Hero, Mom, Used

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right. ”

Care, Make, Matter, Sad, Writing

Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on.

Focus, Ignore, Move, Moving, Sometimes

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