Kora Anderson > Kora's Quotes

“Love's like a cigarette..
You know you had my heart aglow, Between you fingertips.
And, just like a cigarette, I never knew the thrill of life
Until you touched my lips.
Then just like a cigarette, Love seemed to fade away and Leave behind ashes of regret..
And, with a flick of your fingertips, It was easy for you to forget...”
― Lia Habel

“Her touch shattered me. Her touch awoke me. Her touch destroyed me.”
― Pepper Winters, Destroyed

“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Even if you lose love, it’s never really gone. It stays in you forever. The risks of love are always worth it.”
― Karina Halle, The Play

“Life moves pretty fast,” she stated. “If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Misconduct

“I bless every sunrise because it marks a new day by your side.”
― J. Kenner, Seduce Me

“I’m telling you, go hook up. It isn’t like you’ll ever see him again. Fun Florida Fling. Ha-ha, the three Fs!” I want to laugh, but I shake my head. “No way. That’s all I need. To have sex, get pregnant or get an STD, or worse, catch feelings for the dude. He’s obviously a player.”
― Toni Aleo, Clipped by Love

“This was what I’d been looking for, every time I’d slept with a guy.”
― Aubrey Dark, Mine

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.”
― Sarah Sundin

“I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
― Rita Rudner

“No!” I cried. “I deserve to be wooed!”
― Kristen Ashley, Motorcycle Man

“I’ve been in a maximum security prison. I’ve been around the worst of the worst. I’ve had to sleep with one eye open, thinking my next breath could be my last.” “Why are you telling me all this?” He turned toward me and our eyes locked. He reached out and ran the back of his pointer finger along my cheek. “Because I want you to know that none of those motherfuckers ever scared me as much as you do.”
― T.M. Frazier, King

“Bottom of my soul,” he whispered across the room, eyes locked to mine.

I sucked in breath through my nose before I whispered back, “Bottom of mine.”
― Kristen Ashley, Creed

“Sometimes you have to shatter to find strength.  And sometimes you have to let someone in to help you put the pieces back together.”
― Nina Levine, Slay

“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
― Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Everybody is a main character to someone...”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“It feels like nobody in the history of the world has loved another person as much as I love you. I love you so much it hurts. You make me smile, you make me laugh, you make me burn.”
― L.H. Cosway, Painted Faces

“I want you to love me.” I said softly. “But if not, then I want to be the closest thing to you loving me. I want your loyalty. I want your honesty. I want you by my side and no one else’s. I want your body. I want your mind. I want to know your hopes and dreams so I could one day make them reality.”
― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People

“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”
― Ian Fleming

“We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“You’re sarcastic twelve hours a day, but you’re almost never spiteful. You have a good heart under all the glitter.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

“This was love, new and bright and terrifying”
― Cassandra Clare, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”
― Jane Goodall

“This is forever,” he whispered. “No matter how bad we beat the shit out of it. You and me, we are always.”
― Kate Stewart, Loving the White Liar