Top 100 Quotes About Cora
#1. I reckon it does take a powerful trust in the Lord to guard a fellow, though sometimes I think that Cora's a mite over-cautious, like she was trying to crowd the other folks away and get in closer than anybody else.
William Faulkner
#2. Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass. -
Colson Whitehead
#3. I don't want you to be a part of my nightmares, Cora. But I'm selfish enough to ask you to want to be.
Jay Crownover
#4. One proton of faith, three electrons of humility, a neutron of compassion and a bond of honesty," Robert said, winking at his daughter. "What's that?" Cora frowned, confused. Maggie laughed. "That, according to your father, is the molecular structure of love.
Menna Van Praag
#5. I take it you don't question the gods," I muttered. "No, Cora, even you wouldn't question the gods. Our fates were written in the sky the moment we were born." Oh. Wow. "Written in the sky?" I breathed. "Me to you, you to me for all the kingdom to see." Holy crap. Something
Kristen Ashley
#6. Felicia- Tell me, are my whiskers on straight?
Cora- I truly never thought I'd be having that question asked by my daughter, but yes, they're on straight.
Jen Turano
#7. I love you, Half-Pint. Love that little baby. You understand where I'm at with all of that?" ( ... ) "I know you aren't on the same page as me just yet, Cora, and for right now I'm happy enough we're reading the same book. Eventually you have to turn the page, though, you got me?
Jay Crownover
#8. It was an accident, said Cora. No such thing, said Rita. Everything is meant. I
Margaret Atwood
#9. Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It's glorious some days and not so much on others.
Rachel Hauck
#10. I thought a wolf's mindset was just to take?"
"I am not just looking at you through the eyes of a wolf, Cora. I am looking at you through the eyes of your mate. It is the only thing that has allowed me to hold back with you. The pull between us is intense.
Franca Storm
#11. He embraced the runaways with desperate affection. Cora couldn't help but shrink away. Two white men in two days had their hands around her. Was this a condition of her freedom?
Colson Whitehead
#12. Are these people mistreating you? Do you need me to call somebody? Cough if you can't answer." Cora said, her imagination running wild.
Jenn Winter
#13. Sounds like this ability stuff went okay with Shane after all. I had no idea that he would react like that," Noah said.
"Yeah, well, it helps when he wants to rip Nessa's clothes off," I said grinning.
"Hey, I might just let him. He is pretty hot," Nessa joked.
-Noah, Cora and Nessa
Andrea Heltsley
#14. Cora didn't know what optimistic meant. She asked the other girls that night if they were familiar with the word. None of them had heard it before. She decided that it meant trying.
Colson Whitehead
#15. I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check.
-Cora
Sarah Dessen
#16. Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront ... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary
Jessica Fellowes
#17. Damn it, Cora, we could have been exposed! You can't take joyrides like that. What if someone saw you?" Nessa lectured.
"And you, Noah; stop it with the dirty thoughts. She just lost her boyfriend so don't even think about it. Do we understand each other?
Andrea Heltsley
#18. You never know what the vodka will bring," I laughed.
"Oh, like the time you caught my hair on fire at the candlelight party in Mel's basement! That was the craziest thing that I ever had happen to me. If you hadn't switched to water, I would have been bald!"
-Cora, Nessa
Andrea Heltsley
#19. Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864
Cora Pearl
#20. I second that. This is all so creepy. I feel like we are in some sort of strange movie, forget an episode of Buffy. We have passed into official horror movie territory.
-Nessa and Cora
Andrea Heltsley
#21. Cora, you can turn around now. Your virgin eyes won't be offended any longer.
Franca Storm
#22. He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
Madeleine Stowe
#23. Just then, Rhy appeared, looking cheerfully drunk. "There you are!" he called, wrapping his arm around Kell's shoulders and hissing in his ear. "Hide. Princess Cora is hunting princes ... .
Victoria Schwab
#24. You go on about reasons," Cora said. "Call things by other names as if it changes what they are. But that don't make them true.
Colson Whitehead
#25. Mason groaned. "Clinton, you're so dumb it gives me a headache. You heard Cora. She said keep Damon from eating people, not feed people to him." "Who
T.S. Joyce
#26. Let's get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time," I said, picking up my dropped items.
"If there are zombies then we have much bigger problems," he joked.
-Cora and Noah
Andrea Heltsley
#27. But Cora said all people bury what it is they fear
so it cannot hurt them. So it is kept from them, locked up in the earth or in the sea.
Does it work? I asked her. Burying a feared thing?
She pursed her lips. Maybe. If it done justly, and with an honest, hopeful heart ...
Susan Fletcher
#28. It wasn't until they were moving again that Cora realized she forgot to ask where they were headed.
Colson Whitehead
#29. Once, though, I heard Rita say to Cora that she wouldn't debase herself like that. Nobody asking you, Cora said. Anyways, what could you do, supposing? Go to the Colonies, Rita said. They have the choice. With the Unwomen, and starve to death and Lord knows what all? said Cora. Catch you. They
Margaret Atwood
#30. I agree, and I doubt coma boy will even notice. I mean seriously, the guy was buried alive for heaven's sake, I added.
-Cora
Andrea Heltsley
#31. Don't interfere. Go on ahead to the compound."
Cora's eyes narrowed. "Is that an order?"
Ryan heaved a sigh. "A suggestion, but I can make it an order if you prefer.
Franca Storm
#32. Sarsaparilla boiled for one of Sybil's tonics, overpowering the aroma of the roasting meat. Cora
Colson Whitehead
#33. This, Cora ... this is as perfect as two people can be
Jay Crownover
#34. Mark v 39' - pencilled note to journo who rushed around on the rumour cora pearl had died. (as it was too early for her to give interviews)Finally he found a bible and mark v 39 is:'the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth
Cora Pearl
#35. Aunt Cora says it's my aura. I see them, you know. Yours is dark. Sort of like black coffee, although it fluctuates. Sometimes there are little flecks of gold. If you could make those coalesce, turn your aura more toffee than coffee, things would be different.
Ellen Hopkins
#36. Doing their job, said Cora. Keeping us safe.
Nothing safer than dead, said Rita, angrily.
Margaret Atwood
#37. We are welcomed to your city, added Princess Cora with a curtsy and a cherubic smile.
Kell shot Rhy a look that said, 'Honestly? This is the girl you're so afraid of?'
Rhy shot him one back that said, 'You should be, too'.
Victoria Schwab
#38. Thanks for going in with me," I told her.
"No problem, there is too much testosterone in the car without you. I'm outnumbered. Besides, coffee sounds perfect," Nessa, said as she got in line for our drinks.
-Cora and Nessa at Starbucks
Andrea Heltsley
#39. What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?
Colson Whitehead
#40. Was it mad to at least try to live as one wished, or as clost to it as possible? This life is mine, seh would think sometimes. This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.
-Cora
Laura Moriarty
#41. William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.
Sarah Perry
#42. Echo:"The thing about love is you always end up losing it."
Cora: "Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.
Linda Lael Miller
#43. Cora didn't know a whole lot about wendigo, but there were ways in which they were just like people: they wanted above everything to live through the night
("Stay")
Leah Bobet
#44. It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora
Jay Crownover
#45. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part. The hold of a ship. Hollow. Cora
Margaret Atwood
#46. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.
Cora Reilly
#48. I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth: I have known no other happiness.
Cora Pearl
#49. So, what's up with you and Damian?" Helena asks.
"What do you mean?" I can feel the hear of a blush coloring on my cheeks. I can't ever seem to not show how I feel. It's becoming pretty annoying.
Lisa Ann Sandell
#50. Sometimes it's hard to see past our own broken pieces.
Cora Carmack
#51. 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.
Cora Carmack
#52. We've had too much death and disappointment, so we don't know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.
Cora Carmack
#53. 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.
Cora Carmack
#54. Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further.
Cora Reilly
#55. An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.
Cora Carmack
#57. We want what we can't have. It's human nature.
Cora Carmack
#58. 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.
Cora Carmack
#59. 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.
Cora Carmack
#60. 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.
Cora Carmack
#61. 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.
Cora Carmack
#63. I nodded. Nodding was all I knew how to do, all I understood. Nodding, at least, still made sense.
Cora Carmack
#64. She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.
Cora Carmack
#65. Only you would pick up a girl in jail."
"Only I could.
Cora Carmack
#66. 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.
Cora Carmack
#67. In this world," I kept whispering, "you were the only thing I had but you were the only thing I needed.
Kristen Ashley
#68. Any kind of love where you have to prove yourself to be worthy is the wrong kind.
Cora Carmack
#69. I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of ... of what? Light? Life? Cheese?
Lisa Ann Sandell
#70. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.
Cora Carmack
#71. They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.
Kim White
#73. 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.
Cora Carmack
#74. 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.
Cora Carmack
#75. 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.
Cora Carmack
#76. 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.
Cora Carmack
#77. 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.
Cora Carmack
#78. You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.
Cora Carmack
#80. Sometimes, saying the first thing that came to mind went well. Sometimes simple and honest worked the best.
Cora Carmack
#81. Oh God. I'm so sorry, princess. I'm sorry.
Cora Carmack
#82. Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?
Anna Cora Mowatt
#83. Was cool and lovely and I melted into the sensation.
Cora Carmack
#84. You're not trying to pick up a girl?"
"I wasn't.
Cora Carmack
#85. Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.
Cat Cora
#86. 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.
Cora Carmack
#87. Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I'm watching a movie, leave me alone?
Cora Carmack
#88. 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.
Cora Carmack
#90. And now suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been italicized.
Cora Carmack
#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.
Cora Carmack
#92. Your sister is a fucking nuisance," Luca muttered in my ear.
Cora Reilly
#93. It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.
Mervyn Peake
#94. 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.
Cora Carmack
#95. For a moment they all stood silent. The departure of this autumn ship gave rise to many different thoughts. Something came out of hiding in the most hardened.
Cora Sandel
#96. Anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
Daisy Goodwin
#98. 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.
Cora Carmack
#99. Make him be good to you. Make him love you if you can. It's the only way to get through this.
Cora Reilly
#100. 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
Cora Carmack
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