“Sex.
I was going to have sex.
With a boy.
A hot boy.
A hot BRITISH boy.
Or maybe I was going to throw up.
What if I threw up on the hot British boy?
What if I threw up on the hot British boy DURING SEX?”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Are you waiting for an invitation?” I asked, eyeing him standing carefully outside my door. “Is this the part where you tell me you’re a vampire?” He chuckled. “No, I promise the paleness is only because I’m British.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“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.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Sometimes, it's the scary things in life that are the most worthwhile.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Four.
That’s the number of people who saw me hiding around the corner from my own apartment in just a skirt and a bra. Eleven.
That’s the number of ant bites I got on my shoeless feet.
Twenty-seven.
That’s the number of times I was tempted to do myself physical harm because I am an IDIOT.
One.
That’s the number of times I tried not to cry, but failed.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“We want what we can't have. It's human nature.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“I am in love with this burrito. I would marry it if I didn’t want to eat it so badly.”
“The tragedy of true love,” Cade whispered.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“What cat? Oh! MY CAT. The cat… that is mine. Oh, she’s... ” I had said it was a she, right? “She’s fine. All meowing and purring and other cat things.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Oh, I burned it with my straightener.”
“You burned your leg with your straightener? How long is your leg hair?”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“What's your name, love?"
Love? LOVE! Still dying, here.
"Bliss."
"Is that a line?"
I blushed crimson. "No, it's my name."
"Lovely name for a lovely girl.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.
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.
Hold your breath and close your eyes Distract yourself with other guys
It’s no surprise, your defeated sighs
Aren’t you tired of the lies?
Think of everything we’ve missed.
Every touch and every kiss.
Because we both insist.
Resist.
No matter how close, you are always too far
My eyes are drawn everywhere you are.
I’m done. I won’t ignore. I won’t pretend or resist.
I want more.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“SERIOUSLY? Is it because of Jesus? Are you, like, saving yourself for him?” Sex seemed simpler for Kelsey. She had the body of a Barbie and the sexually-charged brain of a teenage boy.
“No, Kelsey,” I said. “It would be a little difficult to save myself for someone who died over two thousand years ago.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“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.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“On a scale of one to bitchy, how hung-over are you?”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“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.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are...”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“I danced.
I danced without music. I screamed without sound. I celebrated in silence, in the dark, behind the curtains where no one could see.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Hopes and dreams are great, but they are a lot easier to break than a solid plan.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“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.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“He stepped away from me to talk, and I leaned heavily against the wall beside his door. Clearly, I was not meant to have sex. This was God telling me that I was meant to be a nun. Get thee to a nunnery, and all that crap. I was so delirious I was confusing God and Shakespeare.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!” Lindsay snorted, “Your instrument doesn’t even like girls, Rusty!”
“Doesn’t mean they don’t like it!”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
“Legs shaved?"
I nodded
"Other... things... shaved?"
"As much as they are ever going to be, yes, now move on." That was where I drew the line of this conversation.”
― Cora Carmack, quote from Losing It
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“As the sun shines low and red across the water, I wade into the ocean. The water is still high and brown and murky with the memory of the storm, so if there’s something below it, I won’t know it. But that’s part of this, the not knowing. The surrender to the possibilities beneath the surface. It wasn’t the ocean that killed my father, in the end. The water is so cold that my feet go numb almost at once. I stretch my arms out to either side of me and close my eyes. I listen to the sound of water hitting water. The raucous cries of the terns and the guillemots in the rocks of the shore, the piercing, hoarse questions of the gulls above me. I smell seaweed and fish and the dusky scent of the nesting birds onshore. Salt coats my lips, crusts my eyelashes. I feel the cold press against my body. The sand shifts and sucks out from under my feet in the tide. I’m perfectly still. The sun is red behind my eyelids. The ocean will not shift me and the cold will not take me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from The Scorpio Races
“I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - Wendy”
― Amanda Hocking, quote from Torn
“أي رجل أنت؟ أمازلت تتفوه بحماقات؟ يجب أن تخجل من نفسك! انك لم تتحل يوماً بالشجاعة لتقف وقفة رجل وترفض الاعتماد علي أحد! انك ان لم تكن متشبثاً بأذيال أمك، فأنت تتشبث بأذيالي، أو بأذيال الرب! انك عاجز عن الوقوف وحدك! لأنك خائف! انك لا تجرؤ علي الغوص عميقاً في روحك أو في جسدك في هذه الحالة، لأنك خائف!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, quote from The Last Temptation of Christ
“Not fitting is it that the Elder Children of Ilúvatar should wed the Younger; nor is it wise, for they are brief, and soon pass, to leave us in widowhood while the world lasts. Neither will fate suffer it, unless it be once or twice only, for some high cause of doom that we do not perceive. But this man is not Beren, even if he be both as fair and as brave. A doom lies on him; a dark doom. Enter not into it! And if you will, your love shall betray you to bitterness and death.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Children of Húrin
“You say you were lucky that in the critical years between 100 and 800 C.E. Christianity went forward, and we were unlucky that during the same years Judaism went backward. Don’t you see that the real question is forward to what, backward to what?” Cullinane reflected for a moment and said, “By God, I do! That’s what’s been bugging me without my knowing it, because I hadn’t even formulated the question.” “My thought is that in those critical years Judaism went back to the basic religious precepts by which men can live together in a society, whereas Christianity rushed forward to a magnificent personal religion which never in ten thousand years will teach men how to live together. You Christians will have beauty, passionate intercourse with God, magnificent buildings, frenzied worship and exaltation of the spirit. But you will never have that close organization of society, family life and the little community that is possible under Judaism. Cullinane, let me ask you this: Could a group of rabbis, founding their decisions on Torah and Talmud, possibly have come up with an invention like the Inquisition—an essentially anti-social concept?”
― James A. Michener, quote from The Source
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