Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel

But let me tell you something: You are capable of so many amazing things. I hope, as you grow older, that this gives you a sense of peace. I, for so much of my life, have had something to prove. But I think you have a real chance of knowing you don’t have to prove a single thing to anyone. If it should come to pass that you feel the need to go do s

What a gift it is, to be able to guide someone to a point and then let them finish it themself. To give someone all the knowledge you have and then pray they use it right.

“Just accept it. Let me feel it and say it. You’re the meaning of my life.”

have always known there is no mountain you cannot climb, one step at a time.

The downside of perfectionism is that you are so used to getting it right, you completely collapse when you get it wrong.

“Falling in love is really quite simple,” she says. “You want to know the secret? It’s the same thing we are all doing about life every single day.” I look to her. “Forget there’s an ending.”

And I wonder for a moment why I have spent all my time worried about losing things, when there is so much here.

We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.

But how many players would be okay knowing they were second place? He takes to it well, though. Which is about the highest compliment I can think of. I’m not sure there is a greater strength.”