{"author":"Cora Carmack","author_id":"Cora+Carmack","total_quotes":50,"quotes":[{"text":"Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["kisses","kissing","love"],"id":1109,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"Each one you take is a commitment. If you break that commitment, the gods of alcohol will punish you with a hangover so bad you'll think Satan himself took a dump on you. -Milo.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["advice","friendship-and-love","funny","joke","random","relationship"],"id":3252,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves--it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["arousal","desire","losing-it","lust","voice"],"id":40395,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["belief","blind-belief","superstition"],"id":44418,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["pain"],"id":53905,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Don't let it.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["fantasy-young-adult","inspirational","inspirational"],"id":54836,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"We spend so much time defending our choice to do this that it becomes hard to show any vulnerability at all. There's only so many times you can handle someone asking about your fall back for when things don't work before you start thinking that maybe the fall back should just be your plan.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["choices","defending","doubt","hopeless","losing-it","plan","uncertainty"],"id":57864,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["romance-novels"],"id":64657,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"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.","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["feminism"],"id":64792,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"},{"text":"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 just reacted instead? What if we take whatever the world gives us and instead of focusing on what it isn't, we enjoy what it is?","author":"Cora Carmack","tags":["new-adult","romance","young-adult"],"id":66158,"author_id":"Cora+Carmack"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}