Carved Quotes

“Sevro." I lean forward. "Your eyes..."He leans in close. "Do you like 'em?""Bloodydamn. Did you get Carved?""By the best in the business. Do you like 'em?""They're bloodydamn marvelous. Fit you like a glove."He punches his hands together. "Glad you said that. Cuz they're yours."I blanch. "What?""They're yours.""My what?""Your eyes!""My eyes...""Do you want the eyes back?" Sevro asks, suddenly worried. "I can give them back.""No!" I say. "It's just I forgot how crazy you are.""Oh." He laughs and slaps my shoulder. "Good. I thought it might be something serious. So I'm prime keeping them?""Finders keepers," I say with a shrug.”

“Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved objarka burji.Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but Daj called her mira again, and when she asked Drina what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family."Family. It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far.”

“The features of character are carved out of adversity.”

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

“Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.”

“Violet carved her hate into her flesh one name at a time.”

“Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.”

“I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.”

“The eyes witness what is carved on the surface, but the hearts are witness to something much deeper.”