Top 70 Rachel E. Carter Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “Recklessness had a price. Always.”

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3. “The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you’ll ever meet.”

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4. “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.”

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “No one is going to sway me but me.”

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8. “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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9. “Darren wasn’t darkness, and I wasn’t his light.”

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10. “Loyalty is never built upon honor, brother. It is built upon blood.”

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11. “Isn’t the best bit of truth always woven in with a lie?”

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12. “It wasn’t always the easiest conversation, having someone else point out your flaws, but it was a necessary evil if we wanted to improve. Better to hear truth, a certain someone had said, than false flattery.”

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13. “I never got a chance to ask,” he said quietly, “how you were faring. After the battle.” “Are you asking me now?” “I am.” “I’m fine.” I couldn’t think of what else to say. Anything else felt like a betrayal. “I’m glad.”

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14. “Pain will come and go, and you need to learn to push past it. If you are overwhelmed you won’t be able to do what needs to be done.”

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15. “I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”

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16. “I’d seen fire when he touched me, and he had made me want to burn.”

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17. “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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18. “Only fools – or bandits – would travel so empty-handed. We.”

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19. “So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?”

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20. “Do you know the difference between a nation of merchants and a nation of warriors?” I followed through without waiting for a reply. “Only one of them is prepared to fall on its blade. King Horrace might promise you the world but in the end you will reap the greater loss.”

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21. “I gave my all... for him. I only hoped it was enough.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “You don’t become the best if you aren’t willing to stick your hand in the fire.”

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24. “This wasn’t supposed to be how our story went. In fairy tales, the prince saved the girl. In mine, the princess destroyed him.”

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25. “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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26. “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.”

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27. “People make mistakes all the time – some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.”

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28. “The charge to produce lightning requires a very intense emotion – one that would not be forgotten so easily.”

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29. “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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30. “Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.”

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31. “That’s the thing about enemies. You never know who they could end up being.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “The truth is told in anger, not regret, love.”

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34. “Too often we allow sigh and pain to dictate our actions.”

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35. “Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter.”

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36. “I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress.”

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37. “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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38. “My victory had come at the cost of a friendship. I swore I would never make the same twice.”

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39. “There was a steady burn rising in me that I couldn’t ignore. My whole body was in flames. I was losing myself in what it felt like to be near him. This was what I had wanted. This is what I was missing. This was what I needed.”

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40. “Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle.”

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41. “If I weren’t struggling, if I weren’t keeled over in agony, if my muscles weren’t screaming at the end of a long day... then I wasn’t trying hard enough.”

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42. “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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43. “Sir Piers spent the whole exercise shouting. I was convinced someone had told him the louder he yelled, the harder we’d try. It didn’t work.”

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44. “People make mistakes all the time –some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.” Impact. Influence. Somehow along the way I had joined the circle of people whose actions dictated change, and it scared me how easy it would be to make the wrong one.”

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45. “Sight can only invoke fear, not pain.”

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46. “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.”

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47. “It’s an easy thing to want someone, it’s another to love them.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “Why would one wish to live out an eternity remembering everything they lost?”

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