86 Quotes by Rachel E. Carter

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

Why would one wish to live out an eternity remembering everything they lost?

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

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.

I’m not sure exactly how... but instead of darkness I saw light.

I don’t want to choose him. I know a future with him would never be what I want it to be.

This was why people left the Academy. Eloise and Isaac took away our brains, Piers broke our bodies, and Cedric took what little magic we had and destroyed it.

Nine times out of ten a knight dies not because of a direct wound, but minor ones that amass over time. The smart enemies don’t strike to kill. They just wait for you to do the work for them.

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.