Rae Carson

Speak of evil, and you summon it.

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we__e imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

Cosmé is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxi__ place, Cosmé is the most efficient maid I__e ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her react to praise from someone she despises. The Scriptura Sancta calls it __he fire of kindness.

Men. And their no-good, fool-headed proposals.

I loved and lost and survived.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

It's the easiest thing in the world to get to California-you just aim yourself west and start walking.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

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.

Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness," I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.

You look beautiful," Alodia says. I startle at the compliment. Then I smile. "I__ beautiful to the one person who matters."She nods. "Hector__ mouth is going to drop open when he sees you.___ hope so. But I meant me. I__ beautiful to me.

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.

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

Every place there's people, there's badness.

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.