“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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“You seem to vacillate between assistance and assault. Which is it?'
'I'm not surprised you've driven three men to try and kill you, I'm only surprised there weren't more,' said Damen, bluntly.
'There were,' said Laurent, 'more.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Captive Prince
“Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
“the Female Once-Over--a process by which one woman creates a detailed profile of another woman based upon about a million subtle details of clothing, jewelry, makeup, and body type, and then decides how much of a social threat she might be. Men have a parallel process, but it's binary: Does he have beer? If yes, will he share with me?”
― Jim Butcher, quote from Changes
“The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of
clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them
knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all
the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect,
who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands,
or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us – else what use
is love at all? All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All
lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. A man’s love is like that.
It is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s. Women think that they
are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols
merely. You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to
come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid
that I might lose your love, as I have lost it now.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would bring senility; now, he was certain it would slowly paralyze him by encumbering each tiny thing with all sorts of significations.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from The System of the World
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