164 Quotes by Rae Carson

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.

Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

I won't lie to you. There is always a cost. All I can gurantee is that it will be the right thing.""It's insane," he says, but without vehemence."It's faith," I say.

One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work itself that calls them onward, especially if they believe they are the only ones who can do it.

I wanted to do something important like that. Something that would change the world for everyone who came after me.

Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life.

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

There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.

Blessed is he who walks the path of God. He shall stray neither to the left nor the right, for the righteous right hand guides him for all days.