Cora Brent > Quotes

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“There are a million mysteries wrapped up in every heart.  It would be foolish to believe they can be easily sorted.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“She took off after a sweet exchange of head.  I think she stole my fucking wallet.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“I wanted to hold her more than I wanted my heart to keep beating.  She leaned her head against my shoulder and I impulsively kissed her forehead.  I knew that was as far as it could go right now.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“Maybe sometimes decent-hearted people do crappy things and there’s nothing deeper to it than that.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“I don’t have a drinking problem,” I had told her irritably.  “I just have a problem when I drink.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“And how did I look to you?” Raw. Dark. Dangerous.  But that wasn’t”
― Cora Brent, Promise Me

“Creed has a rotten case of the shits,” Chase deadpanned.  “I wouldn’t go near the restrooms if I were you.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“if you found even a few people to cling to in this sorry mess of a world then you were terrifically lucky.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“men who have the most fearsome appearances might be the ones with the gentlest hearts.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“Fuck, it hurts to see you in pain.  I just want to take it all away.”
― Cora Brent, Promise Me

“Falling in love is like getting struck by a lightning bolt.  It comes out of nowhere.  And you’re never the same afterwards.”
― Cora Brent, Strike

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken.” -CS Lewis”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“I’d known what the Gentry brothers were.  A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and wild as wolves.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“She wasn’t really yelling at me.  It’s just that sometimes the sheer size of my dick still frightens her.”
― Cora Brent, Game

“There was no point in arguing right and wrong if the situation was beyond your control.  You could cry about the unfairness of it.  You could scream into deaf ears that you were being wronged.  It wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference. The balance of power wasn’t always on the side of justice.”
― Cora Brent, Fall

“every man on the planet ought to take lessons from Cord Gentry.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“You should always say the words. Say them often. Say them when they matter. Because they always matter. Live those words every minute of every day. Then find a reason to say them again.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Rules

“My life was nice. I'd be a fool to complain just because I had no one worth swooning over. That could always be changed.”
― Cora Brent, Syler McKnight

“Do you need to talk to someone?” he asked.  “You know, about what happened to you?” “I did.  I told you what happened.”  “No,” he sat down next to me.  “I mean someone who can maybe help you deal with it all.”  “I’m dealing,” I muttered, holding the icy meat against my skin again.  “Are you?” “Yeah, Cord. I can handle it.  I’m not the first girl to wind up beaten and raped by a guy she thought loved her.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“Shit, don’t you just love her accent?  Come give me a hug, sweetheart.  My brothers have a peculiar way of making me feel unloved.”  When Chase came for me with his arms open Creed stepped in front of him.  “I’ll hug you,” he growled.  Chase crossed his arms.  “The hell with that.  You don’t even know how.”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“At that point I didn’t even care who he was. I just wanted to be lost for a little while in a whirlwind of senses.”
― Cora Brent, Unruly

“Funny thing, heredity.  You’re handed all these pieces of yourself and believe they’re unique to you, but everything about you belonged to someone else first.”
― Cora Brent, Hold

“No, I didn’t miss him. I missed the way I thought of myself when I was with him; settled, steady, mature. None of it was a good enough reason to wear his ring. I should never have said yes to him in the first place. There was a sudden thump against”
― Cora Brent, Unruly

“I wondered whether anyone in that backyard could hear the sound of my ovaries exploding. If there's anything that stirs a woman's soul more than a strong, handsome man tenderly holding a tiny infant then I certainly didn't know about it.”
― Cora Brent, Walk

“battery operated satisfaction”
― Cora Brent, Gentry Boys

“But every violent ending has to begin somewhere.”
― Cora Brent, Draw

“Our mistakes aren’t what break us,” Cassie said. “What hurts the most is how we punish ourselves for them. Don’t do that, Debra. Be good to yourself.”
― Cora Brent, Strike

“We are all conceived at least partly from the echoes of our past. But we have the power to overcome the things that have damaged us. We can forge ahead if we choose.”
― Cora Brent, Fall

“I think he misses you too.” Sheryl nodded absently. She seemed to be staring at a basket filled with fresh baked baguettes but I had the feeling she wasn’t seeing anything in front of her. “Sometimes you just get too settled, you know? You can picture how you want things to be but yet you wait. And wait. And you know what? It’s possible to not even realize that you’re waiting. You’re following this internal set of rules and you don’t even know who wrote them. If you’re lucky then eventually you realize that nothing will ever change unless you change it.” Her voice had taken on a dreamy”
― Cora Brent, Unruly