Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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?”

— 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. “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

54. “Getting angry at him won’t change the fact that you’re angry at yourself.”

— Cora Carmack

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

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56. “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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57. “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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58. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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64. “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

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

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66. “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

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

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

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69. “You don’t realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you.”

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70. “The only thing we can do is try to find people whose scars compliment our own.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “Life happens how it happens, and you either move with the maelstrom or die wallowing about the change in the winds.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

74. “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.”

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

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

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

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78. “I read your letters.”

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79. “There are only stupid decisions waiting for me here. But I’ve never cared all that much for being smart.”

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

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81. “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.”

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82. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

84. “Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn’t mean the way we feel about them has to be.”

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85. “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

86. “If she were a storm, she could destroy him, and he would never lift a finger to protect himself.”

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

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

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89. “His face makes a satisfying crack when my fist connects.”

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

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91. “The way she talks about dance is a little like how I feel when I look at her. Overwhelmed and fulfilled and falling apart all at the same time.”

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92. “I drop my head against the steering wheel and groan. “You are in so much trouble, Dylan Brenner.” And trouble’s name is Silas Moore.”

— Cora Carmack

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

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94. “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.”

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95. “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

96. “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.”

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97. “Why would I want to get used to it? That would be akin to punching myself just to get used to pain.”

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98. “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

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

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

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