“Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I’ll remind you every day how amazing it feels when your body touches mine. I’ll remind you of the good times, and help you forget the bad. I’ll remind you who you are when life has beaten you down and made you doubt it. I’ll bust down yourdoor in the middle of the night and kiss you until you remember that your fears are just that, and they can’t control you. I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“We’ve had too much death and disappointment, so we don’t know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“There are some things that are worth fighting for, no matter the outcome, and you are one of them.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“After what could have been an eternity or a few seconds, Cade whispered, "Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I never dated a girl like her, and she's probably never dated a guy like me. But sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I'm glad you fought for me," she said.
"I'm glad you let me.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Close your eyes. Remember what we talked about that night after your concert? Living is hard. It was hard when you were thirteen, it’s hard today, and it will be hard again in the future. So, you close your eyes and you breathe. Breathe with me.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I think everyone does. Even happy people. They may not admit it to anyone, but I think they feel it. I think they close their eyes, or go for a run, or take a long shower, so that hey can forget just for a second who they are and what they have to do day in and day out.
Living is hard.
And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As long as you open your eyes and keep going.
(Cade)”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“You don’t know how much I’ve thought about this tattoo. I want to memorize it so that every time I close my eyes I can see the way it accentuates your body.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I know that you make me laugh, and that I love hearing your voice, especially when you sing. I know that I haven’t stopped thinking about you since the day you sat down beside me at that coffee shop.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Like they were part of two different solar systems, neither revolving with or around the other, and both were just with each other for a passing moment.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I'm tired of the way we both pretend.
Tired of always wanting and never giving in.
I can feel it in my skin, see it in your grin.
We're more. We always have been.
Think of everything we've missed.
Every touch and every kiss.
Because we both insist.
Resist.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Apparently having emotions equated to having a vagina.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Your pain made you strong. It made you
passionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Because you've 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 don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Trust me. This was much better than the alternative. I’m exactly where I want to be.” He glanced down at me and gave me a half-smile.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“The devil made me do it.
And by devil, I mean my uterus.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
“I'm angry that you keep pushing me away when I know you don't want to.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Faking It
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“Life without any wonder left in it is flat and stale.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Belgariad, Vol. 1: Pawn of Prophecy / Queen of Sorcery / Magician's Gambit
“Damn Alex and his resolve. If I died a virgin, I’d never forgive him.”
― Sarah Alderson, quote from Losing Lila
“وفي حالة ذلك الشاب الغني الذي التقى به المسيح في الطريق وباع كل بضاعته وأعطى الفقير-فإننا ينبغي أن نمجده كما نمجد كل شئ عظيم-وإن كنا لا نستطيع أن نفهمه دون أن نكدح”
― Søren Kierkegaard, quote from Fear and Trembling
“none of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. “But”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift
“I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame, was being gradually softened and bent by the troubles that oppressed it. In spite of myself, I was conscious of a feeling of envy for those who did not suffer from such troubles, for the wealthy and the privileged; and this envy, I observed, was accompanied—still against my will—by a feeling of bitterness towards them, which, in turn, did not limit its aim to particular persons or situations, but, as if by an uncontrollable bias, tended to assume the general, abstract character of a whole conception of life. In fact, during those difficult days, I came very gradually to feel that my irritation and my intolerance of poverty were turning into a revolt against injustice, and not only against the injustice which struck at me personally but the injustice from which so many others like me suffered. I was quite aware of this almost imperceptible transformation of my subjective resentments into objective reflections and states of mind, owing to the bent of my thoughts which led always and irresistibly in the same direction: owing also to my conversation, which, without my intending it, alway harped upon the same subject. I also noticed in myself a growing sympathy for those political parties which proclaimed their struggle against the evils and infamies of the society to which, in the end I had attributed the troubles that beset me—a society which, as I thought, in reference to myself, allowed its best sons to languish and protected its worst ones. Usually, and in the simpler, less cultivated people, this process occurs without their knowing it, in the dark depths of consciousness where, by a kind of mysterious alchemy, egoism is transmuted into altruism, hatred into love, fear into courage; but to me, accustomed as I was to observing and studying myself, the whole thing was clear and visible, as though I were watching it happen in someone else; and yet I was aware the whole time that I was being swayed by material subjective factors, that I was transforming purely personal motives into universal reasons.”
― Alberto Moravia, quote from Contempt
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