“The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from First Year
“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, quote from First Year
“You don't become the best if you aren't willing to stick your hand in the fire.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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, quote from First Year
“You are not exactly my first pick either.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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, quote from First Year
“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, quote from First Year
“Sight can only invoke fear, not pain.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“The worst thing wealth does is give those that have it a false sense of security.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“I'd seen fire when he touched me, and he had made me want to burn.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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, quote from First Year
“I'm not sure exactly how...but instead of darkness I saw light.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“If he chooses combat I'll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Well, future apprentice or not, no one is going to sway me but me.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“You are… You are possibly the one good thing about this place.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Warriors dealt with pain every day, and now that the worst of mine was gone, I was determined to do the same.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Pain will come and go, and you need to learn to push past it. If you are overwhelmed you won’t be able to do what needs to be done.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“It had been an assault of everything wrong and right, right and wrong, wrong and right.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“The people who tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Sir Piers spent the whole exercise shouting. I was convinced someone had told him the louder he yelled, the harder we'd try. It didn't work.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Pain is a sign you are working your body to its limits,”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Too often we allow sigh and pain to dictate our actions.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“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.”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
“Only fools—or bandits—would travel so empty-handed. We”
― Rachel E. Carter, quote from First Year
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“I’d way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, quote from Runaway
“There is the image of the man who imagines himself to be a prisoner in a cell. He stands at one end of this small, dark, barren room, on his toes, with arms stretched upward, hands grasping for support onto a small, barred window, the room's only apparent source of light. If he holds on tight, straining toward the window, turning his head just so, he can see a bit of bright sunlight barely visible between the uppermost bars. This light is his only hope. He will not risk losing it. And so he continues to staring toward that bit of light, holding tightly to the bars. So committed is his effort not to lose sight of that glimmer of life-giving light, that it never occurs to him to let go and explore the darkness of the rest of the cell. So it is that he never discovers that the door at the other end of the cell is open, that he is free. He has always been free to walk out into the brightness of the day, if only he would let go. (192)”
― quote from If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
“Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from The Gum Thief
“We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That is the greatness of the holy scriptures. They are that way because they were created by holy prophets who experienced the truth. Each time we read these works we elevate ourselves to see a little more. (81)”
― Patañjali, quote from The Yoga Sutras
“And being alone and being lonely were two different things but they felt exactly the same: they felt horrible.”
― Sarra Manning, quote from Adorkable
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