“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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“It went on like that till some guys got together and came up with the one-god thing—him being God, the Father, and male and all that—and things went downhill for girls ever after that, far as I can figure. It was always, 'Get in your dress, girl, your smock, your shift or your burnoose or your veil, but whatever it is, girl, put it on and shut the hell up,' is how I see it.”
― L.A. Meyer, quote from In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber
“now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind—for”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from The Subterraneans
“¡la claridad! Esa claridad de mente, tan difícil de obtener, dispersa el miedo, pero también ciega.
"Fuerza al hombre a no dudar nunca de sí. Le da la seguridad de que puede hacer cuanto se le antoje, porque todo lo ve con claridad. Y tiene valor porque tiene claridad, y no se detiene en nada porque tiene claridad. Pero todo eso es un error; es como si viera algo claro pero incompleto. Si el hombre se rinde a esa ilusión de poder, ha sucumbido a su segundo enemigo y será torpe para aprender. Se apurará cuando debía ser paciente, o será paciente cuando debería apurarse. Y tonteará con el aprendizaje, hasta que termine incapaz de aprender nada más.”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams of his smile, no more journal entries with his name, no more prayers for the impossible. She would not allow it.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“I’m going to be the luckiest asshole in the world when she finally lets me love her.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than This
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