Edmond Carrecter

“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?”
Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—”
The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie.
“I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air.
Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Times being like they is and all. But I figure times been hard all my life. Now don’t seem so much worse’n any other.”
― Mildred D. Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken

“But I don't forget and I don't forgive.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“You need luck to keep going. It takes more than skill to stay alive.”
― Walter Farley, The Black Stallion Challenged