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Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1) QUOTES

Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1) QUOTES

1 " It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

2 " What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.

pg 459 "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

3 " I may be in pain, but I am not weak. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

4 " A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians began to play, bringing in the tinkling sounds of light rain, the deeper thrum of thicker droplets. The others played the crashing waves, the lapping of water against a nonexistent shore. All around us were the sounds of water, dripping from faucets, gushing from waterfalls. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

5 " Soft hearts make the universe worth living in. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

6 " Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

7 " You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'

P189 "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

8 " This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

9 " You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

10 " The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."

pg 337 "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

11 " Regardless, I love the person you were, the one you are, the one you will become. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

12 " I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."

pg 287 "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

13 " This is not a crisis, I told myself. You are alive. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

14 " I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

15 " I didn't choose the blood that runs in my veins, any more than you chose your fate. You and I, we've become what we were made to become. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

16 " There was a hunger inside me, and there always had been. That hunger was stronger than pain, stronger than horror. It gnawed even after everything else inside me had given up. It was not hope; it did not soar; it slithered, clawed, and dragged, and it would not let me stop.

And when I finally named it, I found it was something very simple: the desire to live. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

17 " Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarize the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for.
"Find another reason to go on," I said. "It doesn't have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

18 " Though I had already read all those books, I wanted to open them again just to search out the parts he most treasured; I wanted to read them as if immersed in his mind. "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

19 " So, throw honor out the window.” “Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.” The "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)

20 " She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "

pg 346 "

― Veronica Roth , Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)