Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes
#1. But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.
#2. Music wasn't complicated. It was math.
#3. 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.
#4. 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.
#5. My odds were looking about as good as a main character in Game of Thrones.
#6. 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.
#7. 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.
#8. 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.
#9. I'm afraid I might suffocate in my own cleavage.
#10. Yours made you Golden. Mine just made me angry." One
#11. This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.
#12. I hoped she would love me as much as I loved her.
#13. He caught my hands as they pulled through my hair, and pulled my body against his, and I felt all the holes in me. My sobs echoed through them like caverns, and I never would have thought empty could be made of such weight.
I couldn't breathe around it.
#14. 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.
#15. I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns.
#16. I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.
#17. That I want to keep you.
#18. His face makes a satisfying crack when my fist connects.
#19. Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time in life that we always get to point back to and say, Then ... then I was really living.
#20. 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.
#21. He stepped away from me to talk, and I leaned heavily against the wall beside his door. Clearly, I was not meant to have sex. This was God telling me that I was meant to be a nun. Get thee to a nunnery, and all that crap. I was so delirious I was confusing God and Shakespeare.
#22. I can't say no to you.
#23. You could have just thought of me. I would have known and come running. I'm practically a superhero in that regard.
#24. He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.
#25. Why isn't there a reality TV show filled with hot guys doing sweaty, mouthwatering tasks?
Oh, right. That's called sports
#26. Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.
#27. We should live like we smoke - inhale the present and exhale the past.
#28. It's Complicated" I said. "I don't know what home is anymore"
"I think home is wherever you are happiest
#29. Because Mateo Torres is loud, and I'm quiet. Because he's reckless, and I'm cautious. Because he belongs everywhere, and I don't.
Because I think I'm in danger of falling in love with him.
#30. Oh, I burned it with my straightener."
"You burned your leg with your straightener? How long is your leg hair?
#31. I'm already there.
#32. 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?
#33. 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.
#34. Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade
#35. Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past
#36. 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.
#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.
#38. Hold your breath and close your eyes
Distract yourself with other guys
It's no surprise, your defeated sighs
Aren't you tired of the lies?
#39. Garrick was panting when he replied, "You're not forcing me to do anything. I just want you to be sure. You can say stop at anytime." His lips pulled wide. "You don't need to make up a new pet.
#40. He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.
#41. 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.
#42. I think I break more than I fix." Her
#43. Heaven help me, but I wanted my professor to be my boyfriend.
#44. I'm going to shatter into a thousand pieces from the intensity of this kiss alone.
#45. If there's anything I learned with you, it's that one more day was never enough
#46. 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
#47. You told me once that history matters, but it's frozen, set in stone. This is part of our history. I can't change it or undo it. But it doesn't have to dictate our future.
#48. 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.
#49. The only thing we can do is try to find people whose scars compliment our own.
#50. It's a funny thing to miss people before you've even left them, but that's what I was feeling now.
#51. I nodded. Nodding was all I knew how to do, all I understood. Nodding, at least, still made sense.
#52. You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.
#53. It would't be easy. Max was too hurt and her parents too upset for a cry session to fix everything, but it was the beginning, and that's all we can ask for in life - for a beginning to follow every end.
#54. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
#55. It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.
#56. 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.
#57. New Life Realization #1:
Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn't really sink in until you're living it, waist deep in the swamps of no-free-time and not-enough-money.
New Life Realization #2:
It's worth it.
#58. You are unbelievably sexy.
#59. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.
#60. Any kind of love where you have to prove yourself to be worthy is the wrong kind.
#61. 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.
#62. Only you would pick up a girl in jail."
"Only I could.
#63. She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
#64. Don't. Don't do that.
#65. You told me to be myself, so I am.
#66. 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.
#67. Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.
#68. 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.
#69. Shakespeare. No one reads Shakespeare in a bar unless it's a ploy to pick up girls. All I'm saying is you might have better luck up front.
#70. We want what we can't have. It's human nature.
#71. Don't tell me your speechless, princess.
#72. An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.
#73. They're both looking at me like they, too, are waiting for my sky to start falling. Like they're the only ones who really understand what they just saw.
#74. We've had too much death and disappointment, so we don't know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.
#75. What's your name, love?"
Love? LOVE! Still dying, here.
"Bliss."
"Is that a line?"
I blushed crimson. "No, it's my name."
"Lovely name for a lovely girl.
#76. God, I've missed you.
#77. That guy is trying to be a gentleman, because as much as he wanted you to come back to his place and as much as he wants to kiss you-you're hurt, I'm afraid you don't actually want me here
#78. There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I've never cared all that much for being smart.
#79. Life wasn't pretty, but it also wasn't scary until she met a man who touched her without taking and made her miss the pieces she had lost.
#80. I am in love with this burrito. I would marry it if I didn't want to eat it so badly."
"The tragedy of true love," Cade whispered.
#81. I read your letters.
#82. I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo
#83. And when that day comes, it won't matter so much whether every step was in the right direction because life is not a straight line. It will only matter that you took them. That you never let yourself stand still.
#84. I'm not dealing with it at all. I'm fucking disintergrating, but I'm not dealing.
#85. Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!" Lindsay snorted, "Your instrument doesn't even like girls, Rusty!"
"Doesn't mean they don't like it!
#86. I don't know that dancing fixes anything. I don't feel magically happy because of it. My problems don't disappear when the music ends. But I understand life better when I dance, and understanding is half the fight of surviving.
#87. 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
#88. 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.
#89. Sometimes it's hard to see past our own broken pieces.
#90. Honey, right now you look like someone's adorable little sister. No guy wants to screw his little sister. And if he does, you don't want to be near him.
#91. And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.
#92. And now suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been italicized.
#93. Say that this is real. That it counts.
#94. 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.
#95. Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I'm watching a movie, leave me alone?
#96. How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.
#97. You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't.
#98. Was cool and lovely and I melted into the sensation.
#99. Oh God. I'm so sorry, princess. I'm sorry.
#100. Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.
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