Rae Carson
Quotes by Rae Carson
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It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.
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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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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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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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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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Men can be relentless, she agrees, when they think a woman belongs to them.
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Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
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Every place there's people, there's badness.
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One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work itself that calls them onward, especially if they believe they are the only ones who can do it.
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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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The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.
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From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.
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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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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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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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It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.
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From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.
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Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.
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Every place there's people, there's badness.
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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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