“ WAIT, WAIT! JUST one more!”“Bliss, there are children waiting.”And they probably hated us, but I was just so glad to see her smiling that I didn’t care.“Yeah, well, they all just jumped on the bandwag… Cora Carmack
“ Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better. Cora Carmack
“ But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back. Cora Carmack
“ This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like you have to become a different person overnight, that growing up means being not y… Cora Carmack
“ 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
“ You're not horrible, Kelsey. You are vibrant and beautiful, and you burn. Burn so vividly. Fires can damage, but they're also beautiful and vital and they can purify and give the chance for a fresh st… Cora Carmack
“ I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. Cora Carmack
“ He caught my hands as they pulled through my hair, and pulled my body against his, and I felt all the holes in me. My sobs echoed through them like caverns, and I never would have thought empty could… Cora Carmack
“ You want to hear it? Fine. It’s a simple story really, about a pretty girl who was pretty stupid. She let a man touch her because she was scared to say no, and then she told her parents because she wa… Cora Carmack
“ We go through our whole lives thinking that we belong in one place and not in another. We think certain ideas and actions have to be relegated to the tiny little boxes we place them in. What if we jus… Cora Carmack
“ And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull betwe… Cora Carmack
“ 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 everyth… Cora Carmack
“ Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be. Cora Carmack
“ Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself. Cora Carmack
