Rachel E. Carter > Quotes

“The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“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, First Year

“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, First Year

“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, First Year

“People make mistakes all the time – some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“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, First Year

“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, Apprentice

“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, Candidate

“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, Apprentice

“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, Apprentice

“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, Apprentice

“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, Apprentice

“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, First Year

“You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“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, Apprentice

“We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies.
So what were we?”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“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, First Year

“You are not exactly my first pick either.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“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, Apprentice

“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, Candidate

“The worst thing wealth does is give those that have it a false sense of security.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

““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, Candidate

“I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“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, First Year

“Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“That’s the thing about enemies. You never know who they could end up being.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Candidate

“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, Apprentice

“I wonder if you have ever given someone a compliment that wasn't a backhanded insult.”
Darren’s grasp on the handle stilled, and he glanced back at me, eyes dancing amidst the surrounding shadows. “I prefer not to, it gives people an unsettling impression of self-importance.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“Sight can only invoke fear, not pain.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year