“There’s much more power in pain.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Sometimes pain is necessary to fix a problem that cannot otherwise be corrected. It’s unpleasant and unfortunate, but then it’s over and everything is set right.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“I guess when you love someone, you don't mind making sacrifices.
-Vane Westerly”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Success isn't always about triumph. It's about carrying on, continuing the battle. Even the fight can't be won.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what it means. I've never heard of bonds sharing languages either, and yet...'
I pull her even closer, feeling an explosion of heat rush between us as I whisper, 'I think it means we were meant to be together."
'If you two start making out I will fling you out of the wind bubble,' Gus warns.
I can't help laughing.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“But will you be able to live with yourself if something happens to anyone you love?”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“No one thinks you're a flower Vane. We've all smelled you after training.
-Gus, "Let the Storm Break”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Maybe sometimes the only right choice is the wrong one, and what it really comes down to is being brave enough to make it.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Breaking the winds breaks you. The power becomes a craving, like…part of you dies and the only way to fill the emptiness is to spoil everything around you. And you can’t fight it because you can’t fight it because you don’t want to fight it, because then you’d never be able to experience the rush again.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“I stare outside the cave, at the stars slowly peeking out of the velvety black. I’m not sure why I always turn to them, all they give are tiny pricks of twinkling light, barely enough to make a dent in the darkness. But they’re always there. Holding their own, guiding everyone until sunrise. And the sun always rises.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Whisking through the clouds as the birds pass by
Ignoring all the storms that try to ruin the sky
Chasing the setting sun
Forever
And ever
Never let the day be done
No never
Never”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Diving through the stars toward the earth far below
Rushing through the places no one else dares to go
Don't sink into the violent sea
No never
Never
Find the path that sets you free Forever
And ever”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“I guess when you love someone, you don't mind making sacrifices.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
“Uh, the Vane I know could barely control his farts, much less the wind.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Let the Storm Break
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“Is that a threat? You’re but one man against all of us. (Fergus)
Aye. I’m one man with a full garrison of troops sitting rather nicely entrenched on my English lands. Trained knights and soldiers ready to march at my command. You touch one hair on Lochlan’s head and I can promise you, I’ll see every one of you in your grave. (Braden)”
― Kinley MacGregor, quote from Claiming the Highlander
“The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, but only because its bondholders have the power to compel the city to levy a tax on property owners to pay off the bonds. The city itself is not all that far from being bankrupt.”
― Michael Lewis, quote from Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
“Peter returned to Russia determined to remold his country along Western lines. The old Muscovite state, isolated and introverted for centuries, would reach out to Europe and open itself to Europe. In a sense, the flow of effect was circular: the West affected Peter, the Tsar had a powerful impact upon Russia, and Russia, modernized and emergent, had a new and greater influence on Europe. For all three, therefore—Peter, Russia and Europe—the Great Embassy was a turning point.”
― Robert K. Massie, quote from Peter the Great: His Life and World
“Nookie.” I giggle because the word itself is funny but hearing her say it makes it even more so. “I’m going to give you some advice because you’re still a new wife—and because my son can be a little shit at times. I know; I’m his mum.” She looks around as though she’s about to reveal top-secret information. “Nookie equals power and there’s a reason he wants it from you all the time. It levels the playing field. Don’t like something he’s doing? Take the nookie away. Get the results you want. Need him to see things your way but he refuses? Withhold the nookie and he’ll make the fastest attitude adjustment you’ve ever seen. Want your husband to retire because he’s going to work himself into an early grave and miss his grandchildren growing up the way he missed his kids? Close the gates of nookie and get your husband home with you instead of burying him. That’s how you work it, darling. You use the power of the nookie to get the results you want.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Love
“There is something inside all boys that drives us to go away again and again and again.”
― Andrew Smith, quote from Grasshopper Jungle
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