Quotes by Cora Carmack

It wasn’t until I’d walked halfway across the parking lot that I realized: 1. I wasn’t wearing shoes. A. Or a shirt. 2. I didn’t bring my keys                       A. Or anything really. 3. I’d just left a complete stranger in my apartment.                       A. Naked.Whoever said one-night stands were supposed to be simple with no strings attached had clearly never met the disaster that was me.

Garrick was panting when he replied, “You’re not forcing me to do anything. I just want you to be sure. You can say stop at anytime.” His lips pulled wide. “You don’t need to make up a new pet.

No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Dont let it.

The best parts of life are the things we cant plan. And its a lot harder to find happiness if youre only searching in one place. Sometimes, you just have to throw away the map. Admit that you dont know where youre going and stop pressuring yourself to figure it out. Besides...a map is a life someone else already lived. Its more fun to make your own.

Bliss, I don’t normally do things like that. But I was second-guessing everything about coming here, and you were everything I needed. I don’t know how many times I’ve stopped myself from coming over here and knocking on your door. And yes, seeing you with Cade was definitely motivation, but more than that... I just like you, Bliss. As a teacher. As a person. As a guy.

Words streamed from my mouth, some familiar, some not.The last of the were, I love you.He rose up off me with a grin. If Id known it was that easy to get you to admit how you feel, I would have done this a long time ago.

Phaedra keeps saying shes being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She cant deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his. And have you learned anything from our literary parallel? Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, its worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.

He wore his hope like a winter coat, layered over the top of all of him.

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

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 reach their end.

Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.

Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.She snapped the box closed.She didn’t scream. She didn’t run. She didn’t faint.There might have been a little crying.But mostly… she danced.

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.

Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured.Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed.And more and more, she was Roar -- bold, brash, and increasingly baffled by the situation in which she found herself. And sometimes she was none of them, lost and adrift somewhere in between, like the wildlands between Stormling cities.

Because youve got balls of steel.I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. Spence, I dont have balls. Good thing, too, because theyd look terrible in the lingerie Im wearing.

The future is never just one choice. Its 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 you make a new one. Dont worry about whether you might be wrong someday. Worry about whether youre right now. Tomorrow can wait.

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?

Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad youll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo

If brains could have orgasms, Im pretty sure this was what it would feel like.

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past