Carrie Arcos Quotes & Sayings

Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of the dead and project them onto shadows and sounds, trying to make sense of loss by assigning it a new shape. Ghosts aren't real. — Carrie Arcos

I like mornings because each day is like another chance. — Carrie Arcos

Safe places exist only where people aren't. — Carrie Arcos

The first time my mom told me liars didn't go to heaven was when she tried to get me to confess to hitting my eight-year-old brother. I was seven. — Carrie Arcos

The truth is? Everyone lies. Every single person. — Carrie Arcos

The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out. — Carrie Arcos

We try to explain how we feel, but there aren't always the right words or the words we have fail. But with music, you can hear a piece and say, Yeah, that's it. That's exactly how I feel. — Carrie Arcos

It's impossible to keep someone safe. — Carrie Arcos

People usually do something to have someone come after them. — Carrie Arcos

Words stick, even when we don't want them to. — Carrie Arcos