“I'll be good. I promise. Unless you want me to be bad, of course.” — Cora Carmack Promise Copy Share Image
“Oh, princess. Don't be. You never have to be sorry with me.” — Cora Carmack Princess Copy Share Image
“Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.” — Cora Carmack Pain Copy Share Image
“What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.” — Cora Carmack Aurora Copy Share Image
“If there's anything I learned with you, it's that one more day was never enough.” — Cora Carmack Learned Copy Share Image
“Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.” — Cora Carmack Balls Copy Share Image
“I’m done. I won’t ignore. I won’t pretend or resist. I want more.” — Cora Carmack Ignore Copy Share Image
“I nodded. Nodding was all I knew how to do, all I understood. Nodding, at least, still made sense.” — Cora Carmack Nodded Copy Share Image
“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 Death Copy Share Image
“Take notes, boys! The ladies always love a man who can play an instrument!” Lindsay snorted, “Your instrument doesn’t even like girls,… — Cora Carmack Music making Copy Share Image
“The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it was like my uterus… — Cora Carmack Arousal Copy Share Image
“That guy is trying to be a gentleman, because as much as he wanted you to come back to his place and… — Cora Carmack Guy Trying Copy Share Image
“I’m tired of the way we both pretend Tired of always wanting and never giving in I can feel it in my… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of… — Cora Carmack Death Copy Share Image
“Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled. She snapped the box closed. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run.… — Cora Carmack Bliss Copy Share Image
“I stared at them while my control unraveled. I wanted to throw them in the trash. I wanted to return them. I… — Cora Carmack Didn Want Copy Share Image
“This funny thing happens when you graduate college. You hear so much about being an adult that you start to feel like… — Cora Carmack Adult Copy Share Image
“I don't know that dancing fixes anything. I don't feel magically happy because of it. My problems don't disappear when the music… — Cora Carmack Dance Copy Share Image
“Four. That’s the number of people who saw me hiding around the corner from my own apartment in just a skirt and… — Cora Carmack Around the corner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured. Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed. And more and more, she was Roar --… — Cora Carmack Aurora Copy Share Image
“No matter how close, you are always too far My eyes are drawn everywhere you are. I’m tired of the way we… — Cora Carmack Close your eyes Copy Share Image
“Carson McClain, you scare me like nothing has ever scared me before. You drive me crazy and make me laugh and push… — Cora Carmack Carson Copy Share Image
“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what… — Cora Carmack Chance Copy Share Image
“New Life Realization #1: Being an adult is hard work. I know people tell you this growing up, but it doesn’t really… — Cora Carmack Kelsey Copy Share Image
