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The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2) QUOTES

The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2) QUOTES

1 " It was ridiculous.
But so was much of the galaxy. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

2 " A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance. I would never take it for granted again. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

3 " Death is not the only punishment you can give a person. You can also give them nightmares. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

4 " What does Mother always say? Those who go looking for pain...'
'Find it every time,' I replied, completing the phrase. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

5 " Sometimes she still said things that wounded me. And not because they were lies. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

6 " Life is full of pain', I had told Akos, trying to draw him back from depression. 'Your capacity for bearing it is greater than you believe.' And I had been right. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

7 " There's poetry in it, in that poetry can be raw, and cruel, and strange, like this. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

8 " Suffer the fate, for all else is delusion. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

9 " I am a Shotet. I am sharp as a blade and just as strong, I see all of the galaxy and it is all mine. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

10 " Why do you have this expectation that life will make concessions for you?' She scowled. 'We are not promised ease, comfort, or fairness. Only pain and death. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

11 " It wasn't pretending I wouldn't get knocked down that protected me, but the knowledge that I would get back up as many times as I had to. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

12 " They were both people who carried every scrap of everything around, but maybe they could help each other set things down, piece by piece. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

13 " Sitting at his kitchen table--the kitchen table where he had spread his homework as a kid to work before dinner, where he had climbed up to dust the burnstones with red hushflower powder, where he had learned to chop and slice and crush ingredients for the painkiller--was Cyra.
Her thick, wavy hair piled on one side of her head, the other glinting silver.
Her arm wrapped in armor.
Her eyes dark as space.
“Hello,” she said to him in Thuvhesit.
“Hello,” he replied in Shotet. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

14 " A soft heart was a gift, whether given easily or with great reluctance. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

15 " Space was not a finite container, but that didn't mean it was empty. Asteroids, stars, planets, the current stream; space debris, ships, fragmented moons, undiscovered worlds; this was a place of endless possibility and unfathomable freedom. It was not nothing, it was everything. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

16 " I tipped my chin up and kissed him, gently. He responded by wrapping an arm across my back and lifting me into him, strong and warm and certain.
It took a while for us to break apart.
“We pass through the currentstream today,” I said. “Will you come with me?”
“In case you hadn’t noticed,” he said, “I’ll pretty much go with you anywhere.”
He tapped my nose with a gray-stained finger, leaving a mark that even I could see out of the corner of my eye.
“Did you just stain my nose right before I have to go out in public?”
He grinned, and nodded.
“I hate you,” I said.
“And I love you,” he replied. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

17 " So we were tangled in a web together, cause and effect and choice and fate all intermingling. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

18 " We see--
Them.
Older. The silverskin shining on one side of her head. His gray eyes crinkled at the corners as he looks at her.
They stand in a crowd beneath a mammoth ship. It towers, in patchwork metals, over the other ships on the loading bay. A new sojourn ship.
He takes her hand. They walk toward the ship together. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

19 " When the will to live failed, the body still fought. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)

20 " I paused. I was tempted to call Akos a friend, but it seemed too simple for what he had been to me, too small a word. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)