Top 51 Rachel E. Carter Quotes
#4. I don't need another 'adversity builds character' speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where's your adversity?"
Darren raised a brow. "I'm looking at it.
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#5. Loyalty is never built upon honor, brother. It is built upon blood.
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#6. Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He's a prince, and he's only going to break your heart.
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#7. The girl wouldn't last the year. Girls like her were soft and easy to break. Lowborns always wanted glory until they realized the hard work it entailed. Darren had worked hard for everything, and a girl who tried to take that away? Well, she wasn't worth very much.
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#8. The girl clung to the boy so she could chase away her dark. He was light, and she was fading. She was drowning, and she just couldn't stop.
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#9. He was a prince. He was fickle. He was rude. He was arrogant. I knew better. I was lowborn. He was WRONG. I didn't even like him.
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#10. We couldn't be friends. We couldn't be enemies.
So what were we?
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#11. Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter.
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#12. You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.
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#13. They are brothers," Benny repeated softly. "That is a bond you cannot break.
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#14. He kept me up against the wall, kissing me like he couldn't fight any longer. Like he was me, fighting himself and losing to a fervor that would burn him alive.
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#15. Because wrapped up in conceit the size of Jerar was my Darren. Somewhere. Deep, deep down. And that part I loved. With every bit of my being.
I just vehemently hated the rest.
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#16. You should never trust a wolf in sheep's clothing. Because the only thing the wolf will ever want to do is break you.
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#17. I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light.
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#18. It's an easy thing to want someone, it's another to love them.
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#19. My apprenticeship is more important than strangling Master Byron. I repeated the motto over and over again. If I said it enough times it would become true, or so I hoped.
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#20. If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.
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#21. Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage's robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the appalling sense that I had lost my innocence. That I was a monster.
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#22. He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckless and confused at every turn. There was no future with him. None. Darren had duty. To the Crown. Gods only knew Priscilla and Blayne had spent enough time reminding me of that.
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#23. You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country's leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
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#24. I was tired of my traitorous heart wanting things that were taken. Or, more importantly, people that I didn't want to want.
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#25. Darren, Prince Darren, the sometimes-bane-of-my-existence, had put faith in a future that even I had never bothered to foresee.
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#26. And they told me to keep watch over a 'lady.'"
I couldn't help but smirk. A lady.
I lunged and defeated her guard.
I was a war mage.
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#27. So, what do you think? Better than four years with Byron?"
"Are you kidding?" I kept a straight face. "Those were the best days of life.
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#28. Well, I certainly wouldn't give [advice] to the girl that has tried to get me tossed out of this place not once but twice -oh, and let's not forget your most inglorious moment, when you TRIED TO LIGHT ME ON FIRE.
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#29. I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be my intended irony.
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#30. That's the thing about enemies. You never know who they could end up being.
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#31. I don't want to choose him. I know a future with him would never be what I want it to be.
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#32. You, you are a cockroach. No matter how many times we tried to get rid of you, you kept finding a way to scuttle your way back. And as much as I don't like you, well, you are persistent. And even I can admire you that.
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#33. That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.
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#36. The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.
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#37. I'd seen fire when he touched me, and he had made me want to burn.
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#38. You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.
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#39. So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?
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#40. Anything for Byron's least favorite apprentice. It's the least I can do since you took over my torch.
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#41. Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle.
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#42. Well done, Darren!" Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. "What did you use to cast it?"
Darren's eyes found mine. "Something I don't regret.
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#43. The worst thing wealth does is give those that have it a false sense of security.
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#44. I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress.
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#46. I wanted to dance. I wanted to be swept up in the long desert night, sending a farewell to the fallen and embracing the living.
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#47. You can't avoid them forever, Ry.
You have to make a decision soon. It isn't fair what you are doing to either of them.
I know.
I'm just afraid of making the wrong one.
You aren't afraid of making the wrong one, Ry, it's the fact that you want to make the wrong one.
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#48. I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.
I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.
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#49. Perhaps the gods will surprise us and it will be neither."
"A true tragedy."
"Of epic proportions."
"Two longstanding rivals."
"And only one robe to bear."
"Who will win?" Darren's tone was wry. "The handsome prince?"
I grinned. "Or his valiant betrothed?
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#50. Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.
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#51. I'm not like you. I've never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people's feelings. All I've ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.
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