Top 100 Cora Carmack Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Sometimes the most important thing a person could do was to simply show up.”

— Cora Carmack

52. “And as much as I was dying to know, I also knew that there was bliss in oblivion.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

55. “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

56. “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

57. “God, do they make WD-40 for flirting? Because I am rusty.”

— Cora Carmack

58. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

59. “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

60. “And I make that challenge to you now. Notice injustice. Speak out against it. Care more for those who suffer it. This world belongs to all of us, and it could be you or someone you know who goes unnoticed tomorrow. And if you’ve been the victim of a violation of your rights, your civil liberties, or your person, talk to someone. Ask for help. You are absolutely not alone.”

— Cora Carmack

61. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

63. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

64. “She may not be mine, but somewhere along the way, I ended up hers.”

— Cora Carmack

65. “Me? Are you telling me what to do?”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

67. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

70. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

71. “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

72. “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.”

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

75. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

83. “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

84. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

87. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

90. “I read your letters.”

— Cora Carmack

91. “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

92. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

95. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack

98. “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

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

— Cora Carmack

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

— Cora Carmack