Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel

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

“What doesn’t kill you…might still kill you.”

You can change, I think. Just because you want to.

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

“Because you are not yet who you will one day be.”

Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent.

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.”

“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.”

I don’t say what I’m thinking. You are all I have.