Carve the Mark Quotes

“Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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

“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

“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“So, throw honor out the window.” “Honor,” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.” The”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

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

pg 459”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

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

pg 346”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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.'"

P459”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

P244”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."

pg 185”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“To continue to love someone so far beyond help, beyond redemption, was madness”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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 summarise the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for.

P151”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“I sprinted down the alley, not fast enough to avoid the cold water rolling down my back, with a childlike shriek. I caught his arm by the elbow, and we ran together, through the singing crowd, past swaying elders, men and women dancing too close, irritable off-planet visitors trying to cover up their wares in the market. We splashed through bright blue puddles, soaking our clothes. And we were both, for once, laughing.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“That was the problem with being so convinced of your own awfulness—you thought other people were lying when they didn’t agree with you.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“There is an art to Noavek bullshit," Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“I know what it is to become something you hate. I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness. I had to address it early, or it would grow unwieldy in time.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Il dolore aveva un suo modo di scomporre il tempo. Pensavo al minuto successivo, all'ora successiva. Non c'era abbastanza spazio nella mia mente per mettere insieme tutti quei pezzi, per trovare le parole per riassumerla nella sua interezza.
Ma la parte dell'"andare avanti", per quella le parole le avevo.

'Trova un modo per andare avanti' dissi. 'Non deve necessariamente essere buono, o nobile. Basta che sia un motivo.'

Conoscevo il mio: c'era una fame dentro di me e c'era sempre stata. Una fame più forte del dolore, più forte dell'orrore. Continuava a mordere anche dopo che ogni altra cosa dentro di me si era arresa. E quando finalmente le diedi un nome, scoprii che era qualcosa di molto semplice: desiderio di vivere.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“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

“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not,” I said. “I understand. It’s easier that way. But that isn’t how people work.” She”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark