Because a girl can’t inherit. So here I am, all the way out in California, trying to rebuild some of what I lost. As a single girl, I can, you know. But once I get married, everything belongs to my husband. Even my own self. I have to give up the name Westfall and change it to my husband’s. Don’t you see? Once I get married, I lose everything all over again.

— Rae Carson

Rae Carson Quotes

A woman married is a woman with nothing of her own. Everything she’s ever worked for belongs to her husband.

— Rae Carson

I hope I have not broken the world.

— Rae Carson

Without breaking his gaze, I whisper, “Yes I love him. Enough to follow him anywhere.

— Rae Carson

He hardly paid attention, he kept seeing her face, the way her lips had parted with surprise, the way her body had canted towards him.

— Rae Carson

Something dark and inescapable moved within him, and he understood that he was viewing a monument. So much history and memory all in one place, and he was caught between reverence and rage. This was his inheritance; he knew it like he knew the feel of a lightsaber in his grip. But monuments preserved the past, and if he had learned anything recently it was that the past needed to die.

— Rae Carson

Okay, mostly rations. Her Resistance friends were always complaining about the food, saying it was tasteless and unsatisfying, but Rey had no idea what they were talking about. She’d never eaten so well in her life, or so often. She always kept a few nutrient packs stuffed under her cot, though. Just in case.

— Rae Carson

That’s our chance,” said Lando. He’d changed his Aki-Aki garb for bright clothing and a knee-length cape. Poe really liked his cape. He’d have to ask about it when all this was over.

— Rae Carson

He needed to stop showing up to a gunfight armed with nothing but charm and luck.

— Rae Carson

I can’t bear the thought of losing Hector. Sometime, when I wasn’t paying attention, I grew unbearably fond of him.

— Rae Carson

Kylo really hated that ship.

— Rae Carson

Lando went on: “First Order went after us – the leaders from the old wars. They took our kids.” His gaze grew distant. “My girl wasn’t even old enough to walk. Far as I know, she’s a stormtrooper now.

— Rae Carson

The beauty of the night sky offers strange comfort. It is unchanging. Immune to the wars of this world. Something to count on.

— Rae Carson

Turns out, the great wide world doesn’t look anything like a flat little map.

— Rae Carson

Everyone turns to me. You could hear an earthworm in the mud, for how silently they stare.

— Rae Carson

You won’t know how strong you are until you know how strong you have to be.

— Rae Carson

But the ambition that cut into his being was the thought of reigning side by side with her. They were connected. They had defeated Snoke. Together they would be invincible.

— Rae Carson

My smidge of hope is a fragile thing, a tiny waving flame in a vast landscape of reeking darkness. I will shelter it, treasure it, coax it, because the alternative is despair, and I don’t do despair.

— Rae Carson

Knowing something in her head was different from knowing it in her heart. Rey had understood on some level that she wasn’t alone anymore, but now she knew it, and it was so wonderful it hurt. Tears filled her eyes. Loneliness was a kind of agony. But belonging was another.

— Rae Carson

Today is the day of my wedding. It is also my sixteenth birthday.

— Rae Carson

At last the work of generations is complete. The great error is corrected. They day of victory is at hand. The day of revenge. The day of the Sith.

— Rae Carson
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