Top 90 Rae Carson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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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2. “I know you hate me. But don’t let that make you stupid.”

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “For love is more beautiful than rubies, sweeter than honey, finer than the king’s wine. And no one has greater love than he who gives his own life for a friend. My love is like perfume poured out –.”

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6. “I am Queen of Joya d’Arena and bearer of a living Godstone. I kneel to no one. – Elisa.”

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7. “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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8. “Maybe a large, single dose of pain now is better than the slow, burning pain of withering hope.”

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9. “The Champion must not waver. The Champion must not fear. The Gate of Darkness closes.”

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10. “He Who Wafts Gently with the Wind Becomes as Mighty as the Thunderstorm.”

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11. “I love everything about him. I love that he cares so much about honor and duty. I love how, when he’s working hardest to mask his feelings, they’re actually leaking out all over the place. I love the way his hair curls when it gets wet, his slightly crooked smile, the way he smells. When he laughs, I feel it in my toes.”

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12. “I loved and lost and survived.”

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13. “No, no.” I motion vaguely. “Relax. Don’t look so... guardlike.” They drop formation at once, glancing at one another shamefaced. Hector draped an arm around my shoulder as if we were out for a companionable stroll. He leans down and says, “So. Horrible heat we’ve been having lately.”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.”

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17. “Truly, my bed is the greatest place in the world. I.”

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18. “Han Solo was his past. But Rey was his light.”

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19. “It’s a night for shimmering, for catching the light just so.”

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20. “A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.”

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21. “Her Skywalker legacy would go to Rey, Organa to Poe, and she would try one last time to pass her Solo legacy to her son.”

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22. “From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.”

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23. “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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24. “A woman married is a woman with nothing of her own. Everything she’s ever worked for belongs to her husband.”

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25. “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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26. “Yes, our love is a mutual thing, a thing between equals, but we can’t escape the fact that I am his queen. It is up to me whether or not we see each other this night. I must decide.”

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27. “I just hope His Majesty, may minstrels compose epics at the sound of his glorious name, will do as you say and give this land to its people.”

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28. “All the pain means that I am alive. I will think about that instead.”

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29. “But the stillness of sleep is nothing at all like the stillness of death.”

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30. “Magic makes mischief.”

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31. “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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32. “So I pull harder. More gold coats my arms and legs. I don’t have to look to know I am a golden statue, shining like the daughter of Midas. Except the gold is mine. I’m the one in control. Come.”

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33. “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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34. “Jeff’s da attends church every single Sunday, no matter what, on the misguided notion that regular bench sitting makes him decent. The.”

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35. “My home is not a place; it’s people.”

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36. “Because a girl can’t inherit. So here I am, all the way out in California, trying to rebuild some of what I lost. As a single girl, I can, you know. But once I get married, everything belongs to my husband. Even my own self. I have to give up the name Westfall and change it to my husband’s. Don’t you see? Once I get married, I lose everything all over again.”

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37. “I’ve stolen your wife. I’m not sorry. I miss you.”

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38. “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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39. “If a sweet dumpling took human form, it would look just like Aunt Tildy, right down to the flour-dusting of her gray hair.”

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40. “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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41. “Do not doubt God or his choosing of you. He knows infinitely more than we can imagine.”

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42. “I’ll have to think about it more later, when the blessed darkness feels something like privacy.”

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43. “He had a way of believing in people long before they believed in themselves, didn’t he?”

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44. “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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45. “Walking away from my desert companions feels like cutting off a limb. How does one say good-bye to an arm? One doesn’t, I suppose. One pretends it isn’t happening.”

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46. “It’s nice to consider that God may not count imperfection as an obstacle to working out his will in the world.”

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47. “It turns out that a girl with all the friends in the world is still lonely when she’s keeping secrets. My.”

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48. “Where innovation was high but resources were low, you took what you had, slapped it all together, and hoped it held. It was the Corellian way.”

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49. “Men can be relentless,” she agrees, “when they think a woman belongs to them.”

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50. “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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