Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes
#1. Sometimes it's hard to see past our own broken pieces.
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#2. An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.
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#3. We want what we can't have. It's human nature.
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#4. Dudes who look dangerous should just be dangerous. Period. The end. They should not be dangerous and beautiful all at the same time. It leaves the universe out of balance, and it makes me do stupid things like stare.
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#5. Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.
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#7. Only you would pick up a girl in jail."
"Only I could.
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#8. There's this funny thing about empathy. It's not actually in limited supply. Just because other people have it worse doesn't mean you don't deserve to be understood. To feel comfort.
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#10. Someone's an easy grader."
"Someone just has a soft spot where you are concerned." He was leaning down towards me and even though his face was a good foot away from me, I swear I felt those words like he'd whispered them into my ear.
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#12. Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.
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#13. Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I'm watching a movie, leave me alone?
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#14. What cat? Oh! MY CAT. The cat ... that is mine. Oh, she's ... " I had said it was a she, right? "She's fine. All meowing and purring and other cat things.
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#15. And now suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been italicized.
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#17. Tell me I'm not crazy, He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.
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#18. She was my everything
the lungs that allowed me to breathe
the heart that had to beat
the eyes that let me see
She'd become a part of me, and all that was left was a piece of paper to tell the world we were as inseparable as I already felt we were
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#20. Why isn't there a reality TV show filled with hot guys doing sweaty, mouthwatering tasks?
Oh, right. That's called sports
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#21. You could have just thought of me. I would have known and come running. I'm practically a superhero in that regard.
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#23. He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect.
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#24. This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.
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#25. Yours made you Golden. Mine just made me angry." One
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#26. I'm afraid I might suffocate in my own cleavage.
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#27. Words streamed from my mouth, some familiar, some not.
The last of the were, "I love you."
He rose up off me with a grin. "If I'd known it was that easy to get you to admit how you feel, I would have done this a long time ago.
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#28. He's right you know. I will pull you down with me."
I lift my chin and reply, "If I go down, it will be because I jumped, not because you made me fall.
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#29. Perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself. And that's something I'm still discovering day by day.
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#30. My odds were looking about as good as a main character in Game of Thrones.
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#31. You would think that I'd be a bit more comfortable talking about sex, now that I'd had it and all. You would also think that at my age I would be able to successfully insert the straw into a Capri sun juice pouch. I was 0-2 there.
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#32. Trust me. This was much better than the alternative. I'm exactly where I want to be. He glanced down at me and gave me a half-smile.
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#33. I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I wanted to keep them. I was a mess of wants, none of which mattered, because she didn't want me.
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#34. The truth was ... none of that kept people from leaving. Nothing could, if the person was determined to go. The only question was how long you were willing to chase them.
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#35. Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo
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#36. Then she's gone, and it feels like everything I've built here is seconds away from crumbling around me. Like a house of cards destroyed by a simple breath. And all I can think is if things are going to fall apart, I'm not going to stand here trying to catch the pieces.
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#37. It's such a stupid thing. I've had my arm around more girls that I could possibly remember, but in this moment with this girl, who is so far above me I might as well be trying to scoop up the stars, it feels a little bit like a hard-earned first down.
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#38. You don't want to finish our drinks?"
He took my hand, and pressed his lips against the inside of my wrist. "I'm already
intoxicated.
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#39. How can people decide who they want to spend the rest of their life with at this age? I can't even decide what to have for dinner! I can't decide if I want to be an actor, even though I've already got 35,000 dollars in student loans telling me I sure as hell better want to be an
actor.
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#40. It's not that I don't like cats. And really, I think I would enjoy having ... a cat. But what if I get a cat before I'm ready? What if I choose the wrong cat? Or what if I'm bad at it ... being a cat owner, I mean?
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#41. Oh, I burned it with my straightener."
"You burned your leg with your straightener? How long is your leg hair?
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#42. I'm glad you fought for me," she said.
"I'm glad you let me.
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#43. It takes talent to be a gawking hot mess, and I am a gawking hot mess to the third power.
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#44. He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.
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#45. I drop my head against the steering wheel and groan. "You are in so much trouble, Dylan Brenner." And trouble's name is Silas Moore.
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#46. And Rusty is a douche! And the wind in my hair smells like whoosh!"
Cade laughed, "Don't you mean sounds?"
"What sounds?"
"Nevermind," he chuckled
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#47. Oh, princess. Don't be. You never have to be sorry with me.
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#48. We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.
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#49. Because you've got balls of steel.'
I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.
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#50. Was the world dropping shit on everyone else or just me?
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#51. I know that you make me laugh, and that I love hearing your voice, especially when you sing. I know that I haven't stopped thinking about you since the day you sat down beside me at that coffee shop.
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#52. Just stay with me. We'll beat it together, okay? Say you'll stay with me.
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#53. What if he'd just . . . I don't know . . . stuck it in, no warning or whatever. Like . . . SURPRISE! Here's a penis.
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#54. The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves
it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs.
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#55. I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence.
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#56. Legs shaved?"
I nodded
"Other ... things ... shaved?"
"As much as they are ever going to be, yes, now move on." That was where I drew the line of this conversation.
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#58. I told you I would never let anything bad happen to you.
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#59. I'm frustrated. I just don't know what you want from me.
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#60. If I believed the stories I learned growing up, God made the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. I wonder if, like me, the eighth day was when he watched it all begin to unravel.
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#62. I've been thinking about kissing you again since the moment our last kiss stopped.
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#63. The kind of tired that sleep doesn't fix. Just tired of ... being.
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#64. Making a stupid decision doesn't make you stupid. Just as making a smart decision doesn't necessarily make someone smart.
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#66. You don't realize how small you really are until you're faced with something like that. We live our lives as if we're at the center of our own universe, but we're just tiny pieces of a shattered whole.
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#67. That's a big giant fuck if there ever was one.
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#68. You're bruised and battered from dealing with things you should not have had to face, but you are not less because of that. You're more.
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#70. You're the most confusing person I've ever met, and sometimes I hate you.
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#72. How long can I live with just safe and easy before my life becomes completely devoid of meaning?
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#73. On a scale of one to bitchy, how hung-over are you?
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#74. You're lucky this is a big night for you, Bliss. Normally, nobody gets between me and my tequila.
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#75. After what could have been an eternity or a few seconds, Cade whispered, Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.
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#76. Sex.
I was going to have sex.
With a boy.
A hot boy.
A hot BRITISH boy.
Or maybe I was going to throw up.
What if I threw up on the hot British boy?
What if I threw up on the hot British boy DURING SEX?
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#77. You don't know how much I've thought about this tattoo. I want to memorize it so that every time I close my eyes I can see the way it accentuates your body.
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#78. There was Bartender Boy, but he wouldn't get off until well after 2 A.M. I was a nervous wreck already, so if this dragged on till the wee hours of the morning, I'd be completely psychotic. I could just imagine it ... straight-jacketed due to sex.
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#79. We are team. We win and loose together. So, we'll screw up and get better together, too.
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#80. The devil made me do it.
And by devil, I mean my uterus.
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#81. I want to memorize the way your eyes clench shut and you bite down on your lip, so that I can sketch your expression from memory. I want to know the exact angle of the way your neck curves, and how many times your heart beats a minute. I want to know everything.
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#82. He blocks out the sun, and maybe it's the pain or maybe it's just him, but it feels like one of those rare total eclipses where you know you're not supposed to look because it can destroy your eyes or something, but it's so incredible that you can't help it.
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#83. He might not have a good head on his shoulders, but he has good shoulders, so that's close, right?
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#84. How the hell do I go from walking away to this?
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#85. I swallow and stare and swallow again, because dear, sweet Jesus riding a unicorn, he's perfect.
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#86. I never dated a girl like her, and she's probably never dated a guy like me. But sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back.
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#87. Like they were part of two different solar systems, neither revolving with or around the other, and both were just with each other for a passing moment.
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#88. What are you thinking, Bliss?
I should have said, you. Naked. That would have shocked him. Not that I was actually thinking of him naked ... well, now that I mentioned it I was ... damn.
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#89. And as much as I was dying to know, I also knew that there was bliss in oblivion.
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#91. I didn't want to be a virgin. That much I knew. I didn't want to feel like the immature prude who knew nothing about sex. I hated not knowing things. The trouble was ... as much as I didn't want to be a virgin, I also didn't want to have sex.
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#92. This is what it is to be a muse. I walk the line between want and need, between power and submission. And I make the hard choices.
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#93. God, do they make WD-40 for flirting? Because I am rusty.
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#94. I give up. In the war for my parents' approval, I'd lost to a complete stranger.
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#95. I'm figuring out what I want by trial and error, and maybe that's not the best way, but it's all I've got. All I know is that I need to be my own person, someone shaped by my desire, not fear of disappointing the people who are supposed to love me.
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#96. I just ... this wasn't my life. Things like this didn't happen to me, and if they did, it never lasted. Girls like me didn't get guys like Cade.
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#97. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.
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#98. Close your eyes. Remember what we talked about that night after your concert? Living is hard. It was hard when you were thirteen, it's hard today, and it will be hard again in the future. So, you close your eyes and you breathe. Breathe with me.
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#99. I can deny myself all I want, but one thing I cannot deny is just how fucking gorgeous this girl is. And exactly the kind of distraction I'm supposed to be staying away from.
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#100. What was he doing in there? Was he just getting dressed reeeaaally slowly? Was he looking through my things? Was he trashing my place because I'd run out and left him there like the biggest jerk this side of Kanye West at the 2009 VMA's?
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