Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We want what we can’t have. It’s human nature.”

— Cora Carmack

2. “Sometimes, it’s the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”

— Cora Carmack

3. “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

4. “He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.”

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5. “This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.”

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6. “Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.”

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7. “The future is never just one choice. It’s a thousand. And they never stop. You will choose your future every day of your life. And should you wake up one day to find that you regret the choice you made the day before, then make a new one. Don’t worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry about whether you’re right now. Tomorrow can wait.”

— Cora Carmack

8. “On a scale of one to bitchy, how hung-over are you?”

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9. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

10. “We’ve had too much death and disappointment, so we don’t know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.”

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11. “I danced. I danced without music. I screamed without sound. I celebrated in silence, in the dark, behind the curtains where no one could see.”

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12. “Hopes and dreams are great, but they are a lot easier to break than a solid plan.”

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13. “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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14. “I get what it’s like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don’t.”

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15. “I’ve been thinking about kissing you again since the moment our last kiss stopped.”

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16. “Wenn ich zu Boden gehe, dann weil ich gesprungen bin, nicht weil du mich zu Fall gebracht hast.”

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17. “You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.”

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18. “We are team. We win and loose together. So, we’ll screw up and get better together, too.”

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19. “What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.”

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20. “This is just what it feels like to get older. It won’t be the last time you look back at your life and realize just how stupid or naive or terrible you’ve been. I’m pretty sure that’s a reoccurring thing until death do us part.”

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21. “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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22. “Except I’m starting to think that the idea of “belonging” anywhere is false. We go through our whole lives thinking that we belong in one place and not in another. We think certain ideas and actions have to be relegated to the tiny little boxes we place them in. What if we just react instead? What if we take whatever the world gives us and instead of focusing on what it isn’t, we enjoy what it is?”

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23. “My mother had told me once when I was little and had a friendship fall apart that some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reached their end. They burn out.”

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24. “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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25. “I’m afraid I might suffocate in my own cleavage.”

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26. “There’s a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you’re walking the line.”

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27. “My odds were looking about as good as a main character in Game of Thrones.”

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28. “And I am here with you. If you have questions, ask them. If you have fears, shed them. If you have doubts, give them to me and I will crush them beneath my heel. If you need help, I will provide it. Even if you only need someone to yell at, I can be that too. And when the time comes that you need someone to trust, I will be that person. I promise.”

— Cora Carmack

29. “Don’t worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry about whether you’re right now. Tomorrow can wait.”

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30. “You’re not horrible, Kelsey. You are vibrant and beautiful, and you burn. Burn so vividly. Fires can damage, but they’re also beautiful and vital and they can purify and give the chance for a fresh start. You’re not horrible. Not at all.”

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31. “Haven’t you ever wanted to do something that everyone tells you is impossible and pointless? Haven’t you ever cared about something enough to sacrifice for it? Regardless of how stupid or unlikely it seems. Haven’t you ever wanted things to be different?”

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32. “Sometimes it’s hard to see past our own broken pieces.”

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33. “Storms are the greatest predators in existence because they can destroy you with their savage strength or enthrall you with their terrible beauty. Like a poison flower with the stealth of a snake and the ferocity of a lion and the force of all the world’s armies combined.”

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34. “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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35. “Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?”

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36. “When you live a hard life, you spend years wishing for the easy stuff, but then when you get it, it never feels right. You get used to having to fight and claw for the things you want, and when you don’t have to do that anymore, everything feels a little bit muted.”

— Cora Carmack

37. “El llevaba la esperanza como un abrigo de invierno, en capas, por encima de todo.”

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38. “She enjoyed her time alone, reading or riding her horse, Honey, or studying. She did not want to wear fancy dresses or attend parties or experience the frivolity of court life. At least, that was what she always told herself. Now she felt as if she had stepped into the pages of one of her books or strode out of the shadows of her own life for the first time.”

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39. “Life’s too short to waste time living it any other way.”

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40. “Just because you tell me not to worry about something doesn’t mean I can stop. It’s not a switch I can turn on and off.”

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41. “Any kind of love where you have to prove yourself to be worthy is the wrong kind.”

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42. “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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43. “She was a princess without the power to keep her kingdom, a girl whose future had been decided for her. That wasa the cold hard truth. But it didn’t have to be. If she had learned anything last night, it was that the world wasn’t as clear-cut as she had always believed. And between the bad choices and the worse choices, perhaps there was another road that she had never known existed until last night.”

— Cora Carmack

44. “I’ll make you a deal. A question for a kiss.”

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45. “How the hell do I go from walking away to this?”

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46. “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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47. “She knew now that naivety of the world did not disappear with age, only the willingness to admit one’s own unknowing.”

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48. “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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49. “No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Don’t let it.”

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50. “Because sometimes in life, you just have to stand there and do nothing. Overwhelmed by all the versions of ourselves that exist in our minds – who we want to be, who we should be, who we’re not, and who we are – it’s a jungle that can ensnare your feet and confuse your eyes.”

— Cora Carmack