Carangi Quotes & Sayings

Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into,under,far in between, through it, in it, and above. — Gia Carangi

I was told to keep my mouth shut," Manon said. Her grandmother's eyes flashed. "Unless you'd prefer I get on my knees and grovel. — Sarah J. Maas

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five. — Walter Kirn

Tell yourself whatever you need to hear, you're the only one listening. — Gia Carangi

There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon

And my dream for you ... , is that you'll catch a glimpse of what I love so much about fashion: It's boldness and creativity, the confidence that it takes to stand before a camera and let your image be captured, even though you aren't perfect, the peace to be truly okay with how others see you. — Lauren Scruggs

You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life. — Gia Carangi

Life - it's not paradise, you do not have to be perfect. — Gia Carangi

But if you weren't a Keeper ... if you lost someone and you thought they were gone forever, and then you learned you could get them back, you'd be there with the rest of them, clawing at the walls to get through. — Victoria Schwab

I love Hershey's chocolate, especially Kisses, which are my favorite. — Thalia

When I look in the mirror,I just want to like myself ... And if I like myself,then I look good. — Gia Carangi

But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me. — Jonathan Safran Foer

It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose. — Anne Bronte

I think God has a plan for me, but I don't think it's in this life. — Gia Carangi

Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay. — Gia Carangi

Behind every no entry sign there's a door. — Peter Jones

Fall asleep then. Sleep. And vanish. — Marina Tsvetaeva

You don't have to be anybody ... because I would know, being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway. — Gia Carangi

I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating. — Jessi Colter

This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect — Gia Carangi