Faith > Faith's Quotes

“You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.”
― Bo Burnham

“You argue and you bicker and you fight...Atheists and Catholics, Jews and Hindus argue day and night...over what they think is true...but no one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you.”
― Bo Burnham

“The people that tell you what you want to hear are the most dangerous enemies you'll ever meet.”
― Rachel E. Carter, 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, 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, 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, First Year

“You, you are a cockroach. No matter how many times we tried to get rid of you, you kept finding a way to scuttle your way back. And as much as I don’t like you, well, you are persistent. And even I can admire you that.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Candidate

“Well done, Darren!” Master Byron was full of praise for the prince. “What did you use to cast it?”
Darren’s eyes found mine. “Something I don’t regret.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?”
Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“I was tired of my traitorous heart wanting things that were taken. Or, more importantly, people that I didn’t want to want.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies.
So what were we?”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“You can't avoid them forever, Ry.
You have to make a decision soon. It isn't fair what you are doing to either of them.

I know.
I'm just afraid of making the wrong one.

You aren't afraid of making the wrong one, Ry, it's the fact that you want to make the wrong one.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“I don't want to choose him. I know a future with him would never be what I want it to be.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“It's an easy thing to want someone, it's another to love them.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He’s a prince, and he’s only going to break your heart.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“Perhaps the gods will surprise us and it will be neither.”
“A true tragedy.”
“Of epic proportions.”
“Two longstanding rivals.”
“And only one robe to bear.”
“Who will win?” Darren’s tone was wry. “The handsome prince?”
I grinned. “Or his valiant betrothed?”
― Rachel E. Carter, Candidate

“I’m not that pitiful little girl you bullied last year.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“You are not exactly my first pick either.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“Darren wasn’t darkness, and I wasn’t his light.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Candidate

“I wanted to dance. I wanted to be swept up in the long desert night, sending a farewell to the fallen and embracing the living.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Apprentice

“The girl clung to the boy so she could chase away her dark. He was light, and she was fading. She was drowning, and she just couldn’t stop.”
― Rachel E. Carter, Last Stand

“You are… You are possibly the one good thing about this place.”
― Rachel E. Carter, First Year

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair