Carmen Lowell Quotes

“They just witnessed one of those regular but painful life transitions. That, it turns out, is The Way of the Pants.”

“Still the Pants promised us there was time. Nothing would be lost. There was all year if we needed it. We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants and, together or apart, begin again.”

“Carmen finally let out her breath. ‘These are magic pants.‘”

“Sometimes it seems like we’re so close we form one single complete person rather than four separate ones.”

″‘Go away’, she said to the guilt... Guilt wanted her most when she least wanted it.”

“The Pants had absorbed the summer. Maybe it was better that they couldn’t talk. They would let us remember more how we had felt, and less what had actually happened.”

“Tonight was different. I felt like we were each separate and full to our edges with our own stories, mostly unshared. In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone.”

“The Pants were the only witness to all our lives. They were the witness and the document too.”

″...there were a million little lines of shading that we couldn’t convey so easily. They were the subtle things, and understanding them, even knowing when you missed them, was what separated other friends from real friends, like we were.”

“It wasn’t just that she missed her friends; she was starting to wonder if she needed them around to feel like she existed at all.”