Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “My odds were looking about as good as a main character in Game of Thrones.”

— Cora Carmack

52. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

54. “Making a stupid decision doesn’t make you stupid. Just as making a smart decision doesn’t necessarily make someone smart.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

56. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

58. “When I asked a classmate for a rubber, you call them erasers, everyone laughed so hard that I was ready to board a flight straight back to London.”

— Cora Carmack

59. “If brains could have orgasms, I’m pretty sure this was what it would feel like. I shouldn’t like it, but there was possessiveness in his words that was echoed in his dark eyes, and it sent shivers down my spine until my fingers felt numb with their emptiness.”

— Cora Carmack

60. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

61. “I read your letters.”

— Cora Carmack

62. “He might not have a good head on his shoulders, but he has good shoulders, so that’s close, right?”

— Cora Carmack

63. “Sometimes the most important thing a person could do was to simply show up.”

— Cora Carmack

64. “It takes talent to be a gawking hot mess, and I am a gawking hot mess to the third power.”

— Cora Carmack

65. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

68. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

69. “Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They’re ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They’re winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

75. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

76. “She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

78. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

79. “Challenge a tempest, survive it, and you become its master.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

81. “I’m going to kiss you, princess. But not now, not when you’re telling me to. Not when it’s just something you want to check off a list. I’ll kiss you when it counts.”

— Cora Carmack

82. “You could have just thought of me. I would have known and come running. I’m practically a superhero in that regard.”

— Cora Carmack

83. “Yours made you Golden. Mine just made me angry.” One.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

85. “Some people just aren’t as fond of freedom of speech as I am.”

— Cora Carmack

86. “Music wasn’t complicated. It was math.”

— Cora Carmack

87. “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

88. “Silas doesn’t know how to be friends with girls. Either he’ll break your heart or you’ll break his.”

— Cora Carmack

89. “So what are you going to do? I make this weird noise somewhere between a laugh and a sob because, ironically enough... I don’t know.”

— Cora Carmack

90. “I think I break more than I fix.” Her.”

— Cora Carmack

91. “It’s a funny thing to miss people before you’ve even left them, but that’s what I was feeling now.”

— Cora Carmack

92. “At least she had that much. she hadn’t kissed that beast. But what she had done felt worse. She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”

— Cora Carmack

93. “I’m going to shatter into a thousand pieces from the intensity of this kiss alone.”

— Cora Carmack

94. “Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been itelicized.”

— Cora Carmack

95. “But those words were my greatest hope when I was young. To find answers for the unanswerable, a path through the impossible.”

— Cora Carmack

96. “Sometimes you must make answers when there are none.”

— Cora Carmack

97. “I want to dive into him headfirst, submerge myself in the way he makes me feel, and not come up for air until I have no other choice.”

— Cora Carmack

98. “Hey”, I take hold of her chin for extra emphasis.” You don’t ever have to worry about impressing me.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

100. “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