Cora Carmack quotes:

Heaven help me, but I wanted my professor to be my boyfriend.

He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

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

Thank you? Was that like a thanks, but no thanks? Thanks, but I'm watching a movie, leave me alone?"

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.

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

Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade

Life was easier when you stopped caring, when you stopped expecting things to get better.

You are unbelievably sexy.

It was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs. God, I was dying the longest, most tortuous, and arousing death in the history of the world.

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.

She said she wanted my best line tomorrow after the show, and now I knew what it was going to be.

How much of my fever-induced dream was real? I felt safe assuming that my time as a bee was fiction, as well as a few mythological animals that I swear I'd seen. Then I'd lived on the sun with aliens.

Do me a favor? Be a gentleman tomorrow?

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.

Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise anyone else on rational behavior.