Cory Matthews Quotes

No matter how difficult life gets, the important thing is to live it with hope.

There were dumplings on the train, sold by grim men and women with deep lines cut into their faces by years and worry and hunger and misery. This was the provinces, the outer territories, the mysterious China that had sent millions of girls and boys to Canton to earn their fortunes in the Pearl River Delta. Matthew knew all their strange accents, he spoke their strange Mandarin language, but he was Cantonese, and these were not his people. Those were not his dumplings.

Violet seized every opportunity to teach me things she thought would please her youngest son. I wasn’t stupid. I knew everyone was grooming me to be his wife—the next matron of the Cory Ranch. However, that didn’t change the fact that Matt wanted to attend college and play baseball. He had no interest in ranching cattle, raising hogs, or growing corn and hay. And while I had been in 4-H as long as I can remember—sewing, canning, and showing livestock for the Corys—my heart belonged to Pat Benatar, Whitney Houston, and Laura Branigan more than it did to Matthew Cory.