“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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“Beyond a thin veil of space stretched Existence, the frailest and most imbalanced reality of the cosmos. No one was really sure why it was imbalanced, but some believed it had something to do with the general alcohol consumption per capita.”
― Louise Blackwick, quote from The Weaver of Odds
“The machine was running on empty, racing, turning out a fortune without producing an iota of delight: no one enjoyed themselves in the least in these clubs, and I started to doubt whether anyone ever had.”
― Anne Garréta, quote from Sphinx
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, quote from El segundo sexo
“Ведь все наши проблемы на этом свете проистекают из того, что мы вынуждены тратить наши дни такими, какие они есть, из-за того, что не можем перескочить
через самые худшие. В этом-то все дело. С моим яйцом в кармане вы, заметив, что наступающий день слишком мрачен, разобьете его и избежите всех неприятностей. В результате, правда, ваша жизнь станет на один день короче, но зато вы сможете сделать из этого
плохого дня прекрасную яичницу.”
― Milorad Pavić, quote from Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words
“People, he had said, were always being looked at as points, and they ought to be looked at as lines. There weren't any points, it was false to assume that a person ever was anything. He was always becoming something, always changing, always continuous and moving, like the wiggly line on a machine used to measure earthquake shocks. He was always what he was in the beginning, but never quite exactly what he was; he moved along a line dictated by his heritage and his environment, but he was subject to every sort of variation within the narrow limits of his capabilities.
...
She shut her mind on that too. There was danger in looking at people as lines. The past spread backward and you saw things in perspective that you hadn't seen then, and that made the future ominous, more ominous than if you just looked at the point, at the moment. There might be truth in what Bruce said, but there was not much comfort.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
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