Carving Graves Quotes

“While some of those judgments have been so vastly off base that they bounced right off me, one was more poignant than I’d been prepared for. He labeled me a chameleon, claiming I don’t know my own color, and maybe I don’t—not beyond the smoke and fire. Because that horror has charred every moment after, and the only way to breathe in smog is with a mask. What if I choke without it?”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“The other is the remembrance of regret—the lover who got away, who gifted them a night of raptured bliss, only to have it be the bar by which every moment forward would fall short.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Metal can only be bent and molded when immersed in a fire. People are similar.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I know you’re risking a lot with your family, but it’s worth it. He’ll make it worth it, Lettie—a life of shooting stars.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Him leaving me would be a final breaking point. Like he pledged—the goodbye I can’t bear.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“He said he’s like the sunrise. No matter how dark it gets, he’ll always show up.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“What if something happens to you? What if we don’t get out of here? I’d rather die than lose you or have Felicity deprived of such an unbelievable mom.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Some families sing Christmas carols and bicker over the last piece of pie. We make enough pie for everyone to have their own, fight over it anyway, and risk our lives for each other on a random Monday. She’s not growing up in a Hallmark movie. I want her to know that I love her enough to do more than just bake the damn pie. That my love isn’t afraid of scary places.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“makes me think of chess. I won the Ohio State Chess Championship when I was fifteen. My greatest weapon was that no one feared me.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“It’s the one thing all of us understand. The guy is no saint himself—none of our contacts are. But no matter how many unspeakable things we’ve done, we all respect the code of family. Nothing else matters if they’re involved.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Do not try to set her up, pressure her to be someone she isn’t, or expect her to pursue goals that aren’t hers. She will not shed one more goddamn tear because she feels she let you, Ava, or the Carver name down. That all ends today.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Liam draws a new type of strength out of me, a strength that comes with unmasking. One that’s enlivening. His lips, his touch, his eyes on me are empowering.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Even when I pushed back, it was done with the understanding that I’d rebel for a night but conform for a lifetime.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“The Carver name was a candle in the wind that night. Liam not only rescued me; he also kept my family legacy burning. And yet my parents feel I’m tarnishing it by staying here and consorting with seedy hoodlums—my mother’s classification in a recent call—and I can’t say a word in defense.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I’ll make it damn clear that Celeste is an untouchable by annihilating the entire Skulls species. Until then, I’ll start by informing the Carvers. They need to understand who she belongs to. We’re building a new goddamn legacy. She’s KORT royalty now.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“She’s the Carver princess, and if you want to take down the kingdom—” “You steal the princess,” I finish. Or kill the goddamn prince. That’s where this started.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Because I’ll always show up, Ace. No matter how dark it gets, I’ll always fucking show up. That’s our fairy tale.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I can’t promise you a traditional fairy tale, baby. Ivy calls it a crimson-stained fantasy. There’s always threats and danger and the question of how many tomorrows we’ll have. We’ve all accepted it because we have each other, and today is worth it. This is who we are.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“My mother said a life with you would be full of inescapable pain, that death surrounds you guys. But it was the person they’d set me up with that hurt me.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“You deserve every bit of happiness we can scrounge up in this fucked-up life. The only one who has never thought that is you.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Just tell me this, do you want her because she’s wanted by others or because—” “I can’t conceive a universe in which I wouldn’t want her, whether anyone else understood how perfect she was or not.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“This man feeds my wildest fantasies—taboo desires I never felt safe enough to ask for.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“A life without risk is flatlining.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“he’s become the place I feel most like me.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Running toward Scott Filmore—the wealthy, handsome, above-board career man with enough spirit to keep things interesting—is the wise move. He’s ideal. But when I’m with Liam, I don’t envy that drowning ship in Egypt. My soul doesn’t wither from the scathing flames of Ben’s crash licking over every inch of me. And I feel anything but numb. I feel renewed. Awake. Alive.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I’m over other people’s opinions. Why are so many people involved in my choices anyway?”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“I need you. So goddamn much.” His voice is so thick with desperation, with longing, that it stills everything so that all I hear is him. All I feel is him. All I want is him.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“The iota of hope you provided in that text thread was enough to fuel my obsession. I can’t stay away from you anymore. I don’t give a fuck who thinks I should. I won’t.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“Your wrath is fucking sexy.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves

“You are beyond beautiful. Fucking radiant. Unholy red is your color.”
― Brandy Hynes, Carving Graves