Roar Quotes

“She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“You are lightning made flesh. Colder than falling snow. Unstoppable as the desert sands riding the wind. You are Stormling, Aurora Pavan. Believe it.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“And I am here with you. If you have questions, ask them. If you have fears, shed them. If you have doubts, give them to me and I will crush them beneath my heel. If you need help, I will provide it. Even if you only need someone to yell at, I can be that too. And when the time comes that you need someone to trust, I will be that person. I promise.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Confusion leads to knowledge for those brave enough to seek it.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Sometimes you must make answers when there are none.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Sometimes she was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured.

Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed.

And more and more, she was Roar -- bold, brash, and increasingly baffled by the situation in which she found herself. And sometimes she was none of them, lost and adrift somewhere in between, like the wildlands between Stormling cities.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“If she were a storm, she could destroy him, and he would never lift a finger to protect himself.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“No tragedies here, Roar. This world will make you a victim every chance it gets. Don't let it.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Blind belief is a comfort; it is the frame that puts the rest of the world into context. It allows us to block out the things that don’t make sense, that which frightens us. It narrows our vision so that the world does not feel so large. Would it comfort you to have the frame of superstition? To believe that if you say the right words and sacrifice the right things, then your world will stay exactly as it is? Or do you wish to choose what you believe, what you trust and understand?”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“At least she had that much. she hadn't kissed that beast. But what she had done felt worse. She had hoped. And hope broke more hearts than any man ever could.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Challenge a tempest, survive it, and you become its master.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“If he did not learn to block out the instincts she roused in him, destruction could be exactly where they both were headed.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“He scoffed. "i'm not letting you pay. You're one of us".
“Then i’ll buy one for her”, she said jerking her chin toward the matriarch.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“This world will make you a victim ever chance it gets. Don’t let it.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“You simply must have the stronger heart. You must have no doubts, no fear. You must want to survive more than the storm does. When ou drive your hand into the heart of a storm, it in turn drives into you. It will search out every weakness, every insecurity. If you are afraid to die, it will know. I've seen hunters with tremendous skill-- fast and strong and calm under pressure-- crumble under the intensity of facing a storm heart to heart. The battle is different for every person, for every storm, but one thing always holds true-- only one heart gets to live on. So tell me, Roar, do you think you are ready? Look into yourself and decide-- are you willing to bet your life on it?”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Rora played along, saying the right words, smiling the right smile, and nodding, but her mind wasn't in it. Not really. She was outside herself. Her heart grew calm and steady and quiet-- the kind of quiet that came before the Rage season. As if the whole land was bracing itself for the battle to come. All the nerves and the confusing emotions melted away, and she was nothing more than a series of actions cobbled together by instinct alone. That was what happened to an animal when it was cornered. When the danger was high and adrenaline took over. Reason disappeared then, and the only thing left was an instinct older than blood and bones. And her instinct? It told her two things. To lie. And to run.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“But those words were my greatest hope when I was young. To find answers for the unanswerable, a path through the impossible.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“The female hunter had an eerie stillness to her … like a predator that could be on you before you even took a breath to scream.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“His body was a master study in strength—all hard muscles and scarred skin. The waves of his long hair were spread out on his pillow. He had lashes that rested on cheeks that looked as if they had been cut from stone. She wanted to trace the slightly crooked line of his nose, rasp the pads of her fingers over the thickening stubble along his jaw.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“He lifted the tent flap carefully, and called into the dark space, "Rise and shine, princess."

Locke heard the shuffling of blankets, and a grumbled, "I will murder you.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“She enjoyed her time alone, reading or riding her horse, Honey, or studying. She did not want to wear fancy dresses or attend parties or experience the frivolity of court life. At least, that was what she always told herself. Now she felt as if she had stepped into the pages of one of her books or strode out of the shadows of her own life for the first time.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Storms are the greatest predators in existence because they can destroy you with their savage strength or enthrall you with their terrible beauty. Like a poison flower with the stealth of a snake and the ferocity of a lion and the force of all the world’s armies combined.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“But the things he spoke of-- the two sides of her-- she did not know how to explain them outside the context of her life. How could she explain that she had spent her life dreaming of adventure, shile simultaneously hemmed in by fear? She could not explain that she had nver wanted for any material thing-- not clothes or money or food-- but had lacked all the things that came free. Comapnionship. Truth. Choice. She could not tell him that she was so very good at pretending that she no longer knew exactly who she was. Sometimes shw was Aurora. Confident. Clever. Cultured. Sometimes she was Rora. Afraid. Alone. Ashamed. And more and more, she was Roar-- bold, brash, and increasingly baffled by the situation in which she found herself. And sometimes she was none of them, lost and adrift somewhere in between, like the wildlands between Stromling cities.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Because it was time.
To say good-bye to Roar.
And become Aurora once more.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Rora shifted her gaze away from him. "Actually. I'm not here for your help." She had made her decision. It wasn't just about her distrust of Cassius or her yearning for freedom anymore. All her life she had been raised to believe that the kingdom came first. And what was a kingdom if not its people? She wanted to rule, wanted to help and change things, not just for herself but for them all. Locke's eyebrows flattened to a straight line. "Oh? Then why are you here?" She turned to Duke. One side of the old man's mouth tipped up, and she said, "I want to join your crew.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“Aurora thought about Nova, afraid to even discuss the Eye's existence. She thought about the crammed, ramshackle homes she'd passed that people had no choice but to live in if they wanted the safety that Pavan provided. She thought about every time she'd ever heard of some traveling party that disappeared, lost to the dangers of the wildlands. Maybe she could do something. With magic of her own, she would gain the crown. Not Cassius. Not a husband. And then maybe she could change everything for the better. No more treason or banishment. No need to sell the magic in secret. She thought of her favorite book again. She had no boat to leave the sea, no skills as a sailor, but perhaps she culd have a similar voyage of her own. If they could not sail away to some better land, then the only choice was to make this land better.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“She was a princess without the power to keep her kingdom, a girl whose future had been decided for her. That wasa the cold hard truth. But it didn't have to be. If she had learned anything last night, it was that the world wasn't as clear-cut as she had always believed. And between the bad choices and the worse choices, perhaps there was another road that she had never known existed until last night.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar

“The only reason you can't believe it is because you live in a different reality from the rest of us. You are a Stormling. You never knew of the market's existence because you do not need it. When the storms hit, you have a spacious shelter. You know that the palace where you live in will be protected at all costs. You needn't fear the cold or heat or hunger. You don't have to worry about the finite number of jobs in the kingdom or take lower and lower pay to keep from losing your position to someone willing to do the work for less, only to then worry you won't have enough to pay the taxes required to remain a citizen. The rest of us are always keenly aware that we could not survive outside these city walls, and must do everything to maintain our livelihoods within them. So treason might seem absurd to you, but for the rest of us, it's a fact of life.”
― Cora Carmack, Roar