Cory McCarthy > Quotes

“How did you ever train in this thing at knight camp without peripheral vision?"
"Knights don't need peripheral vision. They need chivalry.”
― Cori McCarthy, Once & Future

“Hope is the food of the foolish. Eat up, kiddos.”
― Cori McCarthy, Once & Future

“Reality came with a bite, a pinch, a kiss. Longing, loss, resentment, and the most impossible of all, passion. Passion was real. It wasn't an obsession with the thing you couldn't get better at, like my dad had coldly told me long ago. It was the only thing you could get better at.
Without passion, there could be no growth.”
― Cori McCarthy, Now a Major Motion Picture

“You just don't want to be alone. That's no reason to be with someone. That's not love.”
― Cori McCarthy

“Not all trans people started out feeling like a different gender trapped in their skin. Some find themself a little at a time, a door inside that unlocks and reveals new doors, and new doors after that, and so on.”
― Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

“Stories end in a rush. One minute, Will and Lyra are in love on their bench. The next they’re in separate worlds. One minute the Pevensie’s are kings and queens. The next, they’re back through the wardrobe. One minute, the One ring is lava-dissolving in Gollum’s hand, the next…well, that example doesn’t work. The return of the king has like seven ending scenes, but for good reason.”
― Cori McCarthy, Now a Major Motion Picture

“Why are you okay with only having one spark of happiness in your whole life?”
― Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

“Space greeted him, endless and cold, the blackest of blacks. I want to go home, Merlin thought. But he didn't know where home was. He meant to crystal cave, but that was just a way station on his endless journey. He seemed to understand space in a way that terrified him. Here was endlessness in its purest form.”
― Cory McCarthy, Once & Future

“I’d marry you. I want to already, and that’s an insane feeling. It’s why I can’t start telling you I love you. Once I give in, this is happening. No stopping it.”
― Cory McCarthy, Man o' War

“Power is the worst kind of loneliness”
― Cory McCarthy, Sword in the Stars

“Anything that happened is still happening. That the past is never gone. The future already exists. Spirals upon spirals. So really everyone who was ever here is still here.”
― Cory McCarthy, You Were Here