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1 " How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then, the way everyone avoided you and tiptoed around you when you really needed them. Carmen knew this vicious predicament as well as anyone in the world. How bitter it felt when you acted badly to everyone and ended up hating yourself the most. "
― , Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3)
2 " Carmen will always be free. "
― Prosper Mérimée , Carmen
3 " Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. " Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic " rights" to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through community. As Carmen Conde (a teacher who was also active in Mujeres Libres) wrote, describing the relationship of individuality and community: " I and my truth; I and my faith ... And I for you, but without ever ceasing to be me, so that you can always be you. Because I don' t exist without your existence, but my existence is also indispensable to yours. "
4 " It's a hat," said Jess.Manx stretched. " Yes." " A hat with - just to be clear - a lizard on it. A real, dead lizard." " An iguana, yea. It's been stuffed." " I can see that. Any idiot can see that, but it doesn;t address the issue." " The issue being?" " Manx, you're wearing a goddamn reptile! On your head! With pride! It's like you're the lovechild of Carmen Miranda and a taxidermist! "
5 " You know those giant stuffed-animal prizes at the carnival? The kind practically nobody wins, except the lucky few? I've never won one." " Yeah. I've never won one, either." " Alex was my giant prize. I hated you for taking him away," she admits.I shrug. " Yeah, well, stop hating me. I don't have him, either." " I don't hate you anymore," she says. " I've moved on." I swallow and then say, " Me, too." Carmen chuckles. Then, just as she walks out of the room, I hear her mumble, " Alex sure as hell hasn't. "
6 " Not even you can reach me here, Carmen thought. "
― , Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood, #5)
7 " I learned from a tough Philly cop, Carmen Morales. She taught me the rules." " What rules?" " Rule #1: Trust no one. Rule #2: Miss nothing. Rule #3: Reveal nothing. Rule #4: Question everything. Rule #5: Eye on the clock. Rule #6: Get lucky. Rule #7: Trust your instincts. " Good rules to live by. The army has rules too." " I bet. "
8 " If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto "
