Llera Cora Quotes

Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after Doctors Without Borders, but comprised of chefs. There wasn't anything out there like it, and there was a definite need for chefs to be able to offer assistance and aid. ~ Cat Cora

Let's get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time," I said, picking up my dropped items.
"If there are zombies then we have much bigger problems," he joked.
-Cora and Noah ~ Andrea Heltsley

He leaned in toward her, and as he gave her a hug said Give Cora a kiss from me. He said it the same way he gave her the hug, like it wasn't his sister he was hugging, like it wasn't his mother he was sending a kiss to, but just a polite platitude. Like he was ripping out her heart, like he was cleanly extracting it and placing it in a plastic bag and storing it in the refrigerator to eat later. ~ Yuri Herrera

You are allowed to make mistakes, Nell. And even though it might seem right now like one mistake is enough to derail your entire future, it's not. ~ Cora Carmack

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? ~ Anna Cora Mowatt

You look like shit," Luca said.

Matteo nodded. "My tenth espresso and I'm still not awake. Drank too much last night."

"You were trashed, ~ Cora Reilly

Were they laughing at me? I forced myself to block them from my mind, to concentrate on the lake, the water. What were they to me? People I met today, that was all. We shared blood. The One who mattered to me still found me worthy, still loved me, whether I knew when to curtsy properly or not. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

Ways to Prove that you love Nell De Luca
1. Tell her. Every day. Three times a day. As many times as it takes.
2. Never choose anything else over her. Not football. Not your own stubbornness. Nothing.
3. Be there whether she wants to go skinny-dipping or wants to study. Make sure she knows that she's the adventure, not anything else.
4. Always tell her how amazing her food is (okay . . . that one is partly for you, too, because it means you get to keep eating her food).
5. Give her the best sex of her life (also works out pretty well for you).
6. Teach her whatever she wants to know, and learn from her, too. She's a fucking genius.
7. Tell her she's a fucking genius. All the time. When she doubts it and when she doesn't. Just tell her.
8. Never walk away after a fight. Don't. Fucking. Do it.
9. Prove you love her (preferably in bed, but that's optional) once a day. Three times a day. As many times as it takes.
10. Be worthy of her. Not by playing football or pretending to be something you're not. By being the man she makes you feel like you are. Strong and smart and kind and so damn lucky to have her. ~ Cora Carmack

An accent. HE HAS A BRITISH ACCENT. Dear God, I'm dying. ~ Cora Carmack

You're mad at me. ~ Cora Carmack

You're bruised and battered from dealing with things you should not have had to face, but you are not less because of that. You're more. ~ Cora Carmack

What nourishes me also destroys me ~ Cora Carmack

I will call bullshit on that so many times that the word bullshit will lose all meaning. -Milo ~ Cora Carmack

Oh, princess. Don't be. You never have to be sorry with me. ~ Cora Carmack

Because it was time.
To say good-bye to Roar.
And become Aurora once more. ~ Cora Carmack

I had no one, but Hamlet. Who hated me with the fire of a thousand suns. ~ Cora Carmack

There's a truth you learn early on in the activism scene . . . most protests are lost before they even start. We hope for change. Beg for it. But even when we know it won't come, still we stand with our signs and say our chants. Still we show up. Because to lie down and say nothing means the cause dies with us, and a little piece of us with it. So we chant. And we chant. And we say the same words again and again and again. Louder and louder. We do it to put words to the ache we feel in our hearts. And there's this small, innocent hope somewhere in the back of our minds that even if there's no point, even if it's a done deal . . . we hope that if we say something enough times, people will listen. Or that if we say it enough, it will finally make sense. ~ Cora Carmack

But sex ... that was the opposite of control. There were emotions, and attraction, and that pesky other person that just had to be involved. Not my idea of fun. ~ Cora Carmack

Silas doesn't know how to be friends with girls. Either he'll break your heart or you'll break his. ~ Cora Carmack

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway? ~ Colson Whitehead

Afterwards, we don't head straight back to work. Instead, we stop at McDonald's. Kristy gets a Happy Meal. Cora gets like four pies, which doesn't exactly seem like a healthy, balanced meal to me, but she's not exactly a healthy, balanced young lady. I get a couple of Big Macs and some fries. Arthur stares at the menu the way a time-traveling seventeenth century Puritan would watch a Lady Gaga music video. ~ Hannah Johnson

I want to take you right now, in a goddamn back alley and against this fuckin' wall. It's so fuckin' wrong and I'm a scumbag piece of shit that doesn't deserve to even look at you. ~ Cora Hawkes

Life wasn't pretty, but it also wasn't scary until she met a man who touched her without taking and made her miss the pieces she had lost. ~ Cora Carmack

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

I can't say no to you. ~ Cora Carmack

We are well," Hugh said, looking me over with more intensity than seemed proper. "And you?"
"I'm well, thank you," I said, lying through my teeth. I'd been better the day I took to my bed with measles. ~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

Why does the world hate me? They both laughed, but it wasn't funny. SERIOUSLY. Why does the world hate me? ~ Cora Carmack

I needed control, thrived on it, but around Valentina I often lost it completely. ~ Cora Reilly

She was a princess without the power to keep her kingdom, a girl whose future had been decided for her. That wasa the cold hard truth. But it didn't have to be. If she had learned anything last night, it was that the world wasn't as clear-cut as she had always believed. And between the bad choices and the worse choices, perhaps there was another road that she had never known existed until last night. ~ Cora Carmack

Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again. ~ Cora Reilly

But I awoke at three, feeling terribly sad, and feeling rebelliously that I didn't want to study sadness, madness, melancholy, and despair. I wanted to study triumphs, the rediscoveries of love, all that I know in the world to be decent, radiant, and clear. Then the word "love", the impulse to love, welled up in me somewhere above my middle. Love seemed to flow from me in all directions, abundant as water--love for Cora, love for Flora, love for all my friends and neighbors, love for Penumbra. This tremendous flow of vitality could not be contained within its spelling, and I seemed to seize a laundry marker and write "luve" on the wall. I wrote "luve" on the staircase, "luve" on the pantry, "luve" on the oven, the washing machine, and the coffeepot, and when Cora came down in the morning (I would be nowhere around) everywhere she looked she would read "luve", "luve", "luve." Then I saw a green meadow and a sparkling stream. On the ridge there were thatched-roof cottages and a square church tower, so I knew it must be England. I climbed up from the meadow to the streets of the village, looking for the cottage where Cora and Flora would be waiting for me. There seemed to have been some mistake. No one knew their names. I asked at the post office, but the answer here was the same. Then it occurred to me that they would be at the manor house. How stupid I had been! I left the village and walked up a sloping lawn to a Georgian house, where a butler let me in. The squire was entert ~ John Cheever

The park sustained them, the green harbor they preserved as the town extended itself outward, block by block and house by house. Cora thought of her garden back on Randall, the plot she cherished. Now she saw it for the joke it was - a tiny square of dirt that had convinced her she owned something. It was hers like the cotton she seeded, weeded, and picked was hers. Her plot was a shadow of something that lived elsewhere, out of sight. The way poor Michael reciting the Declaration of Independence was an echo of something that existed elsewhere. Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn't sure the document described anything real at all. America was a ghost in the darkness, like her. ~ Colson Whitehead

When I look back at my mule it was like he was one of these here spy-glasses and I could look at him standing there and see all the broad land and my house sweated outen it like it was the more the sweat, the broader the land; the more the sweat, the tighter the house because it would take a tight house for Cora, to hold Cora like a jar of milk in the spring: you've got to have a tight jar or you'll need a powerful spring, so if you have a big spring, why then you have the incentive to have tight, wellmade jars, because it is your milk, sour or not, because you would rather have milk that will sour than to have milk that wont, because you are a man. ~ William Faulkner

But I'm not as valuable as that piece around your wrist."
"You are worth more than anything I've ever owned or will ever own. ~ Cora Reilly

You would think that I'd be a bit more comfortable talking about sex, now that I'd had it and all. You would also think that at my age I would be able to successfully insert the straw into a Capri sun juice pouch. I was 0-2 there. ~ Cora Carmack

You are unbelievably sexy. ~ Cora Carmack

Adventures don't happen when you're worried about the future or tied down by the past. They only exist in the now. And they always,always come at the most unexpected time,in the least likely of packages. An adventure is an open window; and an adventurer is the person willing to crawl out on the ledge and leap. ~ Cora Carmack

I've spent too much time pretending, too much time on the outside, too much time feeling spineless. This time... I'm going after what I want. ~ Cora Carmack

What if he'd just . . . I don't know . . . stuck it in, no warning or whatever. Like . . . SURPRISE! Here's a penis. ~ Cora Carmack

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

I don't want you to be a part of my nightmares, Cora. But I'm selfish enough to ask you to want to be. ~ Jay Crownover

Marriage is work, Cora, I'm not going to lie. It's glorious some days and not so much on others. ~ Rachel Hauck

Maybe it was because we were both actors. Maybe it was just because of who we were. But I could see in her eyes that she knew, too. This was the end of a chapter.
Cade ~ Cora Carmack

Somebody pinch me."
A man with a horrendously hairy chest and a Speedo so tight it was probably cutting off circulation passed by me at that moment, and did just that. I yelped and held a hand to my ass, gawking at his retreating back.
Jenny laughed. "Maybe this place is magic, and whatever we say comes true. Ryan Gosling, please! ~ Cora Carmack

What are you talking about?' Cora said. Veda had a sudden image of her standing over a small child with her hands on her hips and a scowl. ~ Jessica Lave