“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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“We are always “shocked” when we hear about violence in the suburbs, as though a well-watered lawn, a split-level construction, Little League and soccer moms, piano lessons, Four Squares courts, and parent-teacher conferences, all worked as some sort of wolfsbane, warding off evil. If the Ghost and McGuane grew up just nine miles from Livingston—again, that was how far the heart of Newark was—no one would be “stunned” and “dismayed” by what they’d become. I”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Gone for Good
“If you can't do, you'd best shut up about it.”
― Esther Forbes, quote from Johnny Tremain
“Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There’s no humiliation from which she cannot recover.”
― James A. Michener, quote from Chesapeake
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does.
People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.
There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere.”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Last Hero
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