Carrying Quotes

“If you drop the weight you are carrying, it is okay. You can build yourself back up out of the pieces.”
― K. Ancrum, The Wicker King

“Your every ill-thought, secreted hate, cynical and vicious judgment you carry is meant only for you.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When you carry a frown you will see more frowns; when you carry a smile you will see more smiles.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“It is prudent to assume everyone you meet in the USA is carrying a gun.”
― Steven Magee

“I am not more than a second
full of love in a world
who seeks the truth.
Not more than a moment,
who carries even the greatest of lies (for you)
only to be all that remains in the end.”
― Laura Chouette

“She felt as if all her life she'd been carrying this black sack filled with cobras, and the red-headed boy had swept it from her hands and given her a different one, filled with something soft, and said, Listen, this, too, is yours, and you can have it, and didn't you know there are millions of different things to carry in the world, darling?”
― Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

“RSL has more star-liners than any other company, and covers every commercial route in known space. Demeter is one of the biggest, carrying up to 4500 passengers and crew at any single point on its never-ending, circular cruise around the Terran Empire. And me? Where do I fit in? My name is Sean Lange, and you will probably have never heard of me. It’s sad somehow, I always wanted to leave some kind of a legacy in this life, and perhaps to be remembered. Instead, circumstances have arranged it so that this is probably the last time I will ever use that name.”
― Christina Engela, Space Vacation

“The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to waste aboard the older ships. Every millimeter of plating cost money in the old days, before the New Economic System usurped the old. Every possible bit of space went to the carrying of cargo, or ‘payload’ as it was called.”
― Christina Engela, Panic! Horror In Space

“We were migrants and Mexicans and all that
we carried in our pockets were dreams.”
― Gil Arzola, The Death of a Migrant Worker

“Carrying the dirty secrets of a corrupt company was a burden I could no longer endure.”
― Steven Magee

“Criminals know that lone travelers are an easy target and are probably carrying a lot of cash and valuables.”
― Steven Magee

“Come on,' he coaxed. 'A few more feet and you can sleep.'

She didn't move. As if she couldn't.

He told himself it was because she'd fainted and might not be sturdy, but he walked back to her. Crouched and picked her up in his arms, pack and all.

She said nothing. Absolutely nothing.

But he knew it was coming- that storm. Knew that Nesta would speak again, and when she did, he'd better be ready to weather it.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“The day I went to the park carrying a British Union Jack bag was the day I was harassed and hit by USA law enforcement!”
― Steven Magee

“It goes without saying that all of us carried our guns as well as our tools with us at all times.”
― Karl May, Old Surehand