Top 100 Rae Carson Quotes
#1. Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world. I
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#2. Storm leans towards her and says in a teaching voice, "Joyans consider it is rude to express one's true opinion unless it is unequivocally flattering."
Her brow furrows. "Then how do the express anything at all?
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#5. Lying isn't going to make you into a hero.
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#6. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.
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#7. Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.
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#8. all the magic in the world is rubbish compared to good people who take care of their own.
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#9. You faced him down like a seasoned warrior," he [Hector] says.
"Only because I had your daggers at my back.
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#10. In the same way that the best lies have an element of truth, maybe evil is made all the more powerful when it is accompanied by the startling presence of grace.
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#11. I know you hate me. But don't let that make you stupid.
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#12. I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.
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#13. We're tying off string at the edge of Hampton's claim when I notice Jefferson staring at me. "You don't have to watch my eyes," I grumble. "When I sense gold, I'll tell you straight."
"That's not why I'm looking," he replies, and Hampton fails to keep the grin from his face.
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#15. May sun finches warble sweet melodies in his ear,
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#16. Storm returns with close-cropped hair the color of corn silk and a new swagger.
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#17. I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My dirt, I think. My land.
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#18. I'm relieved to hear that your vanity has weathered this egregious trial unscathed."
"Thank y
Oh. Sarcasm again.
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#19. You must not lose faith, child. No matter what. Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine.
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#20. Arina's face goes blank at his words, her brow smooth as butter.
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#21. Can't trust a man with only half his teeth, the gentleman agrees. They
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#22. All I know of Inviernos is bloodshed and cruelty and rage and ... " Her voice trails off as tears fill her eyes.
"And me," Storm says softly. "You know me.
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#23. How do women all know what to do with babies? It's like they have their own special kind of sorcery.
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#24. All the pain means that I am alive. I will think about that instead.
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#25. Mara leans over and whispers in my ear, I know you're charmingly naive when it comes to matters of the heart, but you just stopped him in his tracks.
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#26. Every place there's people, there's badness.
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#27. You do realise, don't you, that I was present during the assassination attempt?
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#28. Seems like I've been waiting for you to come around my whole life, Lee. But a man can't wait forever and stay a man.
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#29. Honor from death," I snap, "is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.
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#30. Murder is no less a crime when the victim is common born.
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#31. Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.
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#32. Words. I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.
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#34. I cover his hand with my own: "The Champion must not waver," he says in my ear. "Yea, though SHE pass through the shadow of darkness, SHE shall not fear, for God's righteous right hand shall sustain her and give her new life triumphant.
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#35. The less you say, the more your words will matter.
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#36. They're still warm, and I burrow into my pillows, catching the faint scent of rosewater. Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world.
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#37. I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing."
"It's insane," he says, but without vehemence.
"It's faith," I say.
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#38. A quarterstaff is not very subtle. Or handy. If an kidnapper comes at me, what am I supposed to do? Say, 'Excuse me, my lord, while I pull my enormous quarterstaff out of my bodice?
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#39. From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.
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#40. Just thinking about her makes you shine with her fire.
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#41. Yes!" Belen raises his fist in a victory gesture. "We shall save the world from Invierne with slings!
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#42. I could heal you-"
"No," he says, sharply enough that it startles me. "Everyone is dead. Gavin, Jedro, Melita ... All gone. My life, my friends. I lived for the blink of an eye. But I've been dying for a very long time.
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#43. I crouch hidden among the boulders, my body broken and bloodied. Below me, someone is about to murder my best friend, the one person who understands me. If I act, I will likely lose my own life. If I don't, I'll lose so much more ...
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#44. I make my hand my whole world. Hand hand hand hand. I push through the sand and light and heat, and with every bit of strength I have in me, I squeeze back.
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#45. I will need more than this, O God. If you love me as Aneaxi said, please send me something to go on. Something soon.
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#46. Pummel me all you want," I say. "Pummel me to death, in fact. My answers will not change."
The Invierno step back, frowning. "You must love her very much," he says, not unkindly.
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#47. It seems to me that when God decided he wanted to communicate with humankind, he could have come up with a much better plan.
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#48. I lie awake for a long time, wondering which would be more foolish, to prepare for something that may never happen, or not to prepare for something that might.
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#49. she glides away as if she were the princess and I a dumpy maid in a sooty dress. While
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#50. Widow Joyner is repacking a trunk with clean clothes when I return. She looks up as I approach, and her expectant smile instantly disappears. "What happened?" "The reverend and I had a theological disagreement that ended in a permanent schism." "So ... no congratulations are in order?
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#51. Storm chuckles. Queen, chosen one, horse thief. Let it never be said that you are not accomplished.
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#52. You look beautiful," Alodia says.
I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I'm beautiful to the one person who matters."
She nods. "Hector's mouth is going to drop open when he sees you."
"I hope so. But I meant me. I'm beautiful to me.
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#53. My face warms under the scrutiny of silence, and I'm almost relieved when he launches into his eulogy. To my dismay, it turns out to be a sermon.
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#54. I want to be queen of this great country not because someone is holding my hand,but because I can do it.Me.Elisa.
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#55. It's a night for shimmering, for catching the light just so.
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#56. Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.
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#57. May I document your recovery? It's such a devastating and fascinating injury.
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#58. Don't be daft, I love you."
He grins, "You've never said.
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#59. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.
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#60. The Champion must not waver. The Champion must not fear. The Gate of Darkness closes.
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#61. Do you realise what you've done?" he says.
"I believe I just succeeded in using magic to pass your gate," I say. "Doesn't that make me an animagus?
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#62. Yes, well, everyone is ignorant when it comes to their own life and love.
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#63. I am Queen of Joya d'Arena and bearer of a living Godstone. I kneel to no one. - Elisa
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#64. When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.
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#65. She throws her arms around me and gives me such a hug. Not like Mama. I was my mama's little girl, and she always held me gently, like I was precious and fragile. Lucie's hug is fierce, as if I can't be broken, and I hug her back just as tight.
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#66. Fernando de Ismelda," Enrico says. "You won the kingdom's archery competition. I gather it was quite a surprise to everyone."
"Not to me," the boy says.
I decide that I like Fernando de Ismelda.
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#67. The hymn echoes in my head while I ready our wagon to leave. I've never felt so far from God's grace. I suppose I am a stranger walking on earth, but I'm no son of God. I'm no son at all.
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#68. Hector!" He whips around. "You were never, never, going to be just a diversion to me." He sighs, nodding. "That was unfair of me," he says. "I'm sorr - " "And you will kiss me again. That and more. Count on it.
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#69. Just ... resting eyes. Heal me tomorrow. If I'm not ... "
Belen slaps her awake again.
"I hate you," she says.
"Yes," he agrees solemnly. "For years now.
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#70. Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.
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#71. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.
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#72. My home is not a place; it's people.
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#73. From the base of the South Pass, a twisty road leads up the Rocky Mountains. It's a well-earned name, because the steep slopes are covered in giant rocks split open and turned on edge every which way, like God started a quarry and got distracted
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#74. He had a way of believing in people long before they believed in themselves, didn't he?
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#75. I wake to sunshine flashing on puddled water, to dirty clumps of hail melting in the shadowed lees of boulders, to rock wrens singing like it's the best day of their lives.
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#76. She's as big as a house that's about to give birth to a woodshed
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#77. Yes, I love him. Enough to follow him anywhere.
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#78. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
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#79. Belen shrugs. "It's a perfect plan."
"As easy as falling in love," Mara adds.
"Foolproof," Hector agrees.
I don't deserve such friends. I blink against the sting of threatening tears and say, "All you Joyans are filthy liars.
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#80. Rosario is safe. You were supposed to outlive me. Elisa is ten times the ruler you were. I've stolen your wife. I'm not sorry.
I miss you.
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#82. I've come so far, but in some ways, I haven't gone any distance. I'm still hiding from bad men. I'm still trying to figure how to make my own way, my own fortune.
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#83. Blessed is he who walks the path of God. He shall stray neither to the left nor the right, for the righteous right hand guides him for all days.
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#84. Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands
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#85. I don't care if it's Twilight or Fifty Shades or War and Peace - Never let someone make you ashamed of what you love to read!
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#86. You made me cut and dye my hair."
Surely he understands that we face greater problems? "I thought it would greatly improve your looks," I snap.
"Shorn hair is a sign of shame. You humiliate me greatly."
"I'll light a candle tonight in honor of your dead tresses.
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#87. But then I can't think of anything at all, for his hand has slipped around my waist to pull me toward him. Holding my gaze, his left hand slides gently down my forearm to my fingers. He entwines them with his own and spins me into the center of the floor.
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#88. But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me.
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#89. And I refuse to be governed by fear. The life stretching before me is that of a queen. It's a life I chose. Fought for, even. I cannot - will not - squander it on dread.
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#90. My supposed destiny can drown itself in the deepest part of the sea. Along with everyone else's plans for me.
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#91. I pray silently, asking God to make me a little stronger, a little braver.
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#92. Like all good teachers, he loves the moment of revelation, when the light of knowledge passes to his pupil.
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#93. The people around me gasp in recognition of the seal.
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#94. The gate that leads to life is narrow and small so that few find it.
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#95. We have a saying. My people call it 'choosing the path of fewest lashes.'"
"That's terrible," I murmur; half to myself.
"You mistake 'terrible' for 'different,'" he says. "You have a similar say, do you not? 'The lesser of two evils'?
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#96. Sometimes it's best to let your opponent think he has control.
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#97. There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing
no, eager
to give a girl up to a man.
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#98. I should mark my surroundings better. I should look for exits, weaknesses, but I can't make myself focus, and after a moment, I don't even care. Dear Lord, I'm weary.
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#99. It's hard to look away from the tiny curve of her waist.
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#100. I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.
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