Kel Carpenter > Quotes

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix. Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“If you turn your back on those who would stab it, you deserve sweet death—for you were too gullible in life.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“You always were a perfect specimen of lethal resolve.”
― Kel Carpenter, Blessed be the Wicked

“In the future, it might behoove you to share important details like that, or the full scope of both your intentions and actions where I’m concerned. I can’t very well circumvent your stupidity if you don’t inform me.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“I narrowed my eyes. “Doctors say a glass a day helps the heart.” Hades cocked his head mockingly. “A glass of wine, not a gallon of hard liquor.” Semantics.”
― Kel Carpenter, Dark Horse

“In a void where sound is violent, a whisper became a shout.”
― Kel Carpenter, Wicked Games

“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you're useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose. ​— ​Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes”
― Kel Carpenter, Haunted by Shadows

“Dominance. It’s a key aspect of nature and a driving force in society. It separated the working class and the elite, the rich and the poor. In nature, it’s. Lack and white - predator versus prey - but humans have a false sense of right and wrong. They believe in shades of gray. They’ve deluded themselves into thinking there’s such a thing as equality. Segregation is wrong, they say, yet only a hundred years ago, they were cracking the whips. Hypocrisy at its finest.”
― Kel Carpenter, Heir of Shadows

“Art is created from emotion, and it’s meant to evoke an emotion from its audience,”
― Kel Carpenter, White Raven

“It was the kiss that made people see stars, and think they could reach them.”
― Kel Carpenter, Scion of Midnight

“No one realized how dark, how deep his fascination—his obsession—with her was beginning to run. Except maybe Quinn herself.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture”
― Kel Carpenter, Touched by Fire

“Grief makes us strangers even to ourselves.”
― Kel Carpenter, Reject Me

“To my past self, we did better when we knew better. It’s okay to let go.”
― Kel Carpenter, Touched by Fire

“Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest”
― Kel Carpenter, Dark Horse

“There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.” I pictured each. “There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good.” Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury”
― Kel Carpenter, Long Live the Soulless

“Quinn wasn’t sunshine and flowers. She was moonlight and shadows. Blood and bone. The edge of a knife, so beautiful and yet so sharp it would cut should you touch it without knowing how to handle its edge.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“I shook my head. “I, uh, I don’t do the mate thing. Polite pass.” His brows furrowed.”
― Kel Carpenter, Dark Horse

“Dorian—he’s the broody fae, Roman—he’s the overprotective and grieving wolf shifter, Ezra—he’s the mouthy vampire with an appalling sexual appetite. (No, I didn’t mean appealing.”
― Kel Carpenter, White Raven

“He called to me like the moon to the waves.”
― Kel Carpenter, Scion of Midnight

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“It’s not going to be easy. Nothings easy. Nothing that’s worth it.”
― Kel Carpenter, Heir of Shadows

“Loyal to those she deemed worth it, and unforgiving to those who weren’t. Blood be damned.”
― Kel Carpenter, Haunted by Shadows

“Playing with fire doesn’t mean you’ll get burned. Those that understand the flame understand that it cannot help what it is—and take heed.”
― Kel Carpenter, Fortune Favors the Cruel

“And to all you lovelies out there that want to fuck the dragon. Go put on some Barry White, grab a glass of whatever you fancy, and read on. This one is for you.”
― Kel Carpenter, Covet Me

“I closed my eyes and tried to remember all those anger management classes I’d taken in the Afterlife. Remember what Vlad the Impaler, my sponsor, had said. Count to ten. Then stab. In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have picked one of the most notorious demons as my mentor.”
― Kel Carpenter, A Demon's Guide to the Afterlife - The Complete Series

“My mouth fell open. How was it I’d ended up in a position to be blackmailed by two men? I’d spent my life avoiding people. Keeping to myself. I didn’t talk to strangers. I lived in the woods like a good shifter and read books. Made jewelry and threw knives. Went hiking with Nova and rock-climbed on the rare occasion I was feeling adventurous. I didn’t waste my time with dating or relationships. I could barely get laid as it was. But I was good by it. Content. And now I was getting screwed by two guys at once. The irony.”
― Kel Carpenter, Reject Me

“against my skin, luring me with its hypnotic melody.”
― Kel Carpenter, Lucifer's Daughter

“My entire life had been built on systemic prejudice and speciesism.”
― Kel Carpenter, Haunted by Shadows

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.” Veronica Roth, Insurgent”
― Kel Carpenter, Touched by Fire