Carthak Quotes

“You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.”
― Tamora Pierce, Emperor Mage

“He had learned a great deal while he was there, it was true. In particular, he had found that he wasn't certain he could stay in a country where slavery was practiced. He had always thought he would manage to avoid it somehow when he left the university, or that he would become used to it. Now he understood he could not avoid it. The university managed to live slave-free, but it was a lie. The shadow of slavery lay over it. The arena was only the very worst of this way of life. Lesser forms of brutality to men and women were everywhere. When people were bought and sold, it was just too easy for free people to treat them as things. He couldn't face that. Sooner or later he would have to leave his friends and his teachers. He could not stay here.”
― Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter

“A sudden thought shocked him to the bone. I could leave Carthak when I'm a master. I'd never have to think about the games again.”
― Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter