Rachel E. Carter Quotes & Sayings

It's an easy thing to want someone, it's another to love them. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

He was nothing, even in the eyes of his brother. He could see it in the way the older boy accepted their favor like it was the most natural thing in the world. Never once did he offer anything to the boy sitting beside him, just taking for himself. Somehow, that was the worst part. And it hurt the boy. So he dealt with it the only way he knew how. He retaliated and hurt his brother back. For — Rachel E. Carter

I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light. — Rachel E. Carter

I'd seen fire when he touched me, and he had made me want to burn. — Rachel E. Carter

Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle. — Rachel E. Carter

If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get. — Rachel E. Carter

Love Darren? Of course not. Love is for fools not smart enough to see the path in front of them. That's the difference between you and I, Ryiah. I see the truth and accept Darren for what he is. You just see what you want to see. It's why I will wear the crown and bear his children while you are left wondering why you were never good enough. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

They are brothers," Benny repeated softly. "That is a bond you cannot break. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

I was tired of my traitorous heart wanting things that were taken. Or, more importantly, people that I didn't want to want. — Rachel E. Carter

That's the thing about enemies. You never know who they could end up being. — Rachel E. Carter

You should never trust a wolf in sheep's clothing. Because the only thing the wolf will ever want to do is break you. — Rachel E. Carter

I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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? — Rachel E. Carter

Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He's a prince, and he's only going to break your heart. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

Isn't the best bit of truth always woven in with a lie? — Rachel E. Carter

So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us? — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

You are not exactly my first pick either. — Rachel E. Carter

The truth is told in anger, not regret, love. — Rachel E. Carter

Recklessness had a price. Always. — Rachel E. Carter

I don't want to choose him. I know a future with him would never be what I want it to be. — Rachel E. Carter

The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet. — Rachel E. Carter

All of sudden I cared what someone thought of me. Because we are friends. And making you miserable and angry makes me miserable and angry. I don't want to be the person to make you mad or cry, Ryiah. I want to make you laugh. I want you to make me laugh, because gods know you are the only one who can. So, yes, I am sorry, I am sorry because even if I was right, I was also wrong. And I'd rather lose a silly battle than your friendship. — Rachel E. Carter

The worst thing wealth does is give those that have it a false sense of security. — Rachel E. Carter

"Darren wasn't darkness, and I wasn't his light.
I needed to show him he was fire. My fire. Something filled with light. Something good. Something just like my but wrapped up so tightly in his own barrier of darkness it could burn. Unless you knew how to unravel him.
Pressing my lips to his I shut my eyes and channelled my one single promise.
I will never give up on you." — Rachel E. Carter

I told you not to trust a wolf," he continued. His words dripped like honeyed venom. "Because it would only ever want to break you." Darren let out a small, harsh laugh. "Haven't you figured it out yet? I'm the wolf, Ryiah. I guess what I really should have told you was to never trust a prince, but that's not quite as memorable. — Rachel E. Carter

I know exactly who you are." I took a step forward, and another, until I was standing right in front of him. Then my words turned to ice. "You are the selfish, spineless son of a king who is too afraid to be his own man. You would rather hide behind your status than fight for something that could actually mean something." There, that felt good. "And it's a shame, really it is, because, according to you, I was the one true friend you had. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

We couldn't be friends. We couldn't be enemies.
So what were we? — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

Loyalty is never built upon honor, brother. It is built upon blood. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

Anything for Byron's least favorite apprentice. It's the least I can do since you took over my torch. — Rachel E. Carter

Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

You will thank me one day for not filling your head with false compliments. Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will. — Rachel E. Carter

I'm not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

Darren, Prince Darren, the sometimes-bane-of-my-existence, had put faith in a future that even I had never bothered to foresee. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

Sight can only invoke fear, not pain. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter

You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire. — Rachel E. Carter

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. — Rachel E. Carter