Breanne Burch > Breanne's Quotes

“She used to say we all need to go home from time to time, to remind us where we came from. I think she was half-right. We do need to go home from time to time, but only to remind us why we left in the first place, so we can get clear on what we do want.”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“mothering isn’t supposed to be easy. It’s meant to stretch us,”
― Barbara Davis, The Last of the Moon Girls

“I’m grateful to your family for adopting me as one of theirs, but that night my parents passed, they took away all of the magic with them.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“Then he tended to the reindeer, his expression laced with glee, “And now”—Snow Daddy grinned—“I must decorate a tree.”
― Meghan Quinn, How My Neighbor Stole Christmas

“It is what it is. A fucked-up situation, with no evil people to blame. We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow. Some of us sadder than others. Some of us more willing to forgive than others. Grudges are heavy, but for the people hurting the most, I suppose forgiveness is even heavier.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Colleen Hoover, Reminders of Him

“Lore existed about the kiss of sea singers, one that gave endless breath to a land walker they loved more than the sea.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Scars paint our stories, they give proof to the battles we’ve survived, the trials we’ve overcome.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“I would crush worlds for her. I would cross the skies and seas chasing her light. I’d never stop.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Sometimes we’re more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don’t deserve them, or that they aren’t real, that they’ll disappear quickly and easily and we’ll be left in the ruins.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“If I was whiskey, then she was the barrel that held me, that helped me age, that made me better.”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“Tears never did anyone any favours, but sometimes they just needed to fall.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Awakening

“But I was made of swinging fists and rash words, my edges too jagged and my temper too hot. Nothing about me was delicate.”
― Penn Cole, Spark of the Everflame

“Most civilians are too petrified to protest but there are others who are stronger. There are others who are waiting for the right moment. There are others who have already begun to fight back.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“you had this—this goodness I never found in my life. This sweetness that I never found at home.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“His touch was the changing of the seasons, the dead, cold grey of winter thawing and giving way to the colorful hope of spring.”
― Penn Cole, Glow of the Everflame