Top 90 Rae Carson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Bad men are never all bad, and good men are never all good, and it makes it hard to know up from down.”

— Rae Carson

52. “Storm chuckles. “Queen, chosen one, horse thief. Let it never be said that you are not accomplished.”

— Rae Carson

53. “Yes!” Belen raises his fist in a victory gesture. “We shall save the world from Invierne with slings!”

— Rae Carson

54. “It’s utterly infuriating, the number of people I’ve encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God’s will.”

— Rae Carson

55. “What would Leia do?”

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56. “People pretend he’s a white man when it suits them, erasing part of who he is.”

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57. “My brother Felix used to say that my knives would never be as sharp as my tongue, which was a shame.”

— Rae Carson

58. “Softly he says, “My life has ever been yours, Elisa.” My.”

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59. “Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.”

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60. “Hiding in relative comfort, I remember to be terrified.”

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61. “His name was Humberto, and now you’re just being petty.”

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62. “It’s the highest art form, deceiving without lying. A word is the only thing in the world made more powerful by absence than existence.”

— Rae Carson

63. “Can’t trust a man with only half his teeth,” the gentleman agrees. They.”

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64. “Yes, well, everyone is ignorant when it comes to their own life and love.”

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65. “Maybe I’ve used up my love luck.”

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66. “Banners of royal blue stream from the posts. The door panels display my royal crest –.”

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67. “But none of it will be real. None of them will want me. My throne, yes. Prestige. A conquest. But not me. page 221.”

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68. “Given a choice between my life and yours, I will choose mine. Every time. Without hesitation.”

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69. “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.”

— Rae Carson

70. “Every place there’s people, there’s badness.”

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71. “When you get intense, you spark. And you have the kind of hair any man would want to get tangled in.”

— Rae Carson

72. “Her love for me has always been a foolish thing, but I’m grateful for it.”

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73. “Hector is saying. “But it would be safer –.”

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74. “My smidge of hope is a fragile thing, a tiny waving flame in a vast landscape of reeking darkness. I will shelter it, treasure it, coax it, because the alternative is despair, and I don’t do despair.”

— Rae Carson

75. “The gate that leads to life is narrow and small so that few find it.”

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76. “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.”

— Rae Carson

77. “I’d rather be treated with respect than treated like a lady.” Hampton.”

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78. “He is never far, and every time I glance in his direction, I see huge brown eyes lingering on me, bright with feeling. He is aware of me in a way Alejandro never was, and it gives me a little thrill each time I notice him noticing me.”

— Rae Carson

79. “I’m beautiful to the one person who matters.” She nods. “Hector’s mouth will drop open when he sees you.” “I hope so. But I meant me. I’m beautiful to me.”

— Rae Carson

80. “The beauty of the night sky offers strange comfort. It is unchanging. Immune to the wars of this world. Something to count on.”

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81. “At last the work of generations is complete. The great error is corrected. They day of victory is at hand. The day of revenge. The day of the Sith.”

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82. “Knowing something in her head was different from knowing it in her heart. Rey had understood on some level that she wasn’t alone anymore, but now she knew it, and it was so wonderful it hurt. Tears filled her eyes. Loneliness was a kind of agony. But belonging was another.”

— Rae Carson

83. “Without breaking his gaze, I whisper, “Yes I love him. Enough to follow him anywhere.”

— Rae Carson

84. “You won’t know how strong you are until you know how strong you have to be.”

— Rae Carson

85. “Okay, mostly rations. Her Resistance friends were always complaining about the food, saying it was tasteless and unsatisfying, but Rey had no idea what they were talking about. She’d never eaten so well in her life, or so often. She always kept a few nutrient packs stuffed under her cot, though. Just in case.”

— Rae Carson

86. “That’s our chance,” said Lando. He’d changed his Aki-Aki garb for bright clothing and a knee-length cape. Poe really liked his cape. He’d have to ask about it when all this was over.”

— Rae Carson

87. “I hope I have not broken the world.”

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88. “Turns out, the great wide world doesn’t look anything like a flat little map.”

— Rae Carson

89. “He needed to stop showing up to a gunfight armed with nothing but charm and luck.”

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90. “Today is the day of my wedding. It is also my sixteenth birthday.”

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91. “Everyone turns to me. You could hear an earthworm in the mud, for how silently they stare.”

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92. “I can’t bear the thought of losing Hector. Sometime, when I wasn’t paying attention, I grew unbearably fond of him.”

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93. “He hardly paid attention, he kept seeing her face, the way her lips had parted with surprise, the way her body had canted towards him.”

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94. “Kylo really hated that ship.”

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95. “Something dark and inescapable moved within him, and he understood that he was viewing a monument. So much history and memory all in one place, and he was caught between reverence and rage. This was his inheritance; he knew it like he knew the feel of a lightsaber in his grip. But monuments preserved the past, and if he had learned anything recently it was that the past needed to die.”

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96. “But the ambition that cut into his being was the thought of reigning side by side with her. They were connected. They had defeated Snoke. Together they would be invincible.”

— Rae Carson

97. “Lando went on: “First Order went after us – the leaders from the old wars. They took our kids.” His gaze grew distant. “My girl wasn’t even old enough to walk. Far as I know, she’s a stormtrooper now.”

— Rae Carson