Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes (2025 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. “We are team. We win and loose together. So, we’ll screw up and get better together, too.”

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

— Cora Carmack

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

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10. “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

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

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12. “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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13. “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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14. “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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15. “I’ve been thinking about kissing you again since the moment our last kiss stopped.”

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16. “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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17. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

18. “Confusion leads to knowledge for those brave enough to seek it.”

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19. “I will never be able to turn this girl down. Whatever she wants from me, it’s hers. No matter what she asks for, I’ll find a way to give it to her. She may not be mine, but somewhere along the way, I ended up hers.”

— Cora Carmack

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

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21. “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

22. “But she would not give Cassius any more opportunities to see her vulnerable. Nor was she giving up. If there were no other way, she would marry Cassius. But she had six days. Wars had been won, empires toppled, and cities leveled in less time. If there were a way out of this, Rora would find it.”

— Cora Carmack

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

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24. “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

25. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

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28. “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

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

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30. “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.”

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31. “I don’t know anything about this guy except that his eyes make my mind fuzzy, and his muscled arms make my mouth water, and the things he keeps saying... they burn – beginning in my flushed cheeks, blazing through my blood, and curling between my legs until I feel like I have to squeeze them together just to keep from combusting on the spot.”

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32. “I hold her, and I know now why caring about another person is so damn scary. It’s not that they won’t care about you back, because that either happens or it doesn’t. You live with it or you do everything you can to change it. The really scary thing is the moment you realize that for the rest of your life, you’ll feel twice the pain, twice the joy, twice the fear. Twice as helpless to control it all, too.”

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33. “Something that small shouldn’t be so powerful, but I swear there’s this pull between us, and every time I touch her, every time I even look at her, it gets stronger. Like she’s an ocean tide, and I’m caught up in her current. And there’s no point in fighting my way to the surface because I don’t know which way is up or down. I don’t know anything except that I want her.”

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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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.”

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37. “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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38. “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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39. “There’s a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you’re walking the line.”

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40. “You are allowed to make mistakes, Nell. And even though it might seem right now like one mistake is enough to derail your entire future, it’s not.”

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41. “If I go down, it will be because I jumped, not because you made me fall.”

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

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43. “Mom could qualify for the Olympics in selective hearing.”

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44. “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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45. “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?”

— Cora Carmack

46. “Esa un bosque de problemas de autoestima a punto de ocurrir, y yo me encontraba precisamente en medio de todo.”

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

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49. “If he did not learn to block out the instincts she roused in him, destruction could be exactly where they both were headed.”

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50. “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.”

— Cora Carmack