Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

United States, Novelist
1970

Carol Rifka Brunt is an American novelist and short fiction writer. She is the author of Tell The Wolves I'm Home, which was on the New York Times Best Seller list. She is currently working on her second book.

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Film
I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Black
- Kind
- Rain

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- World
- Trying
- Together
The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Money
- Kind
- Cost
I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Heart
- Ideas
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.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Secret
- Flying
Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Knows
You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Knows
- June
- Embarrassing

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

Carol Rifka Brunt
- Hard