Rain of Shadows and Endings Quotes

“No one can steal your thunder if you are the storm,” he replied, stretching a hand toward her. “Be the fucking storm, Tessa.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Know that sometimes we must break to be forged into who we were meant to be,”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“So much history gets lost when a select few choose what gets to be remembered.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“I want everything you have to give, and then I want more. I want every piece of you— every secret, every tempest raging in those stormy eyes. I want all your fear and all your pain, all your smiles and all your laughter. I want all your mornings and all your nights, all your days and months and years.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Know that sometimes we must break to be forged into who we were meant to be,” she said, streaks of violet flickering in her eyes like lightning cutting through the flecks of gold. Then she bent and pressed her lips to Tessa’s brow. “You will break, Tessalyn. Make sure you get back up and take what is yours.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She’d get back up. She’d be the fucking storm. Because the thing about light? When strong enough, it could obliterate darkness.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She wouldn’t survive this. It would break her. And she didn’t burn when she broke. She shattered, and the world shattered with her.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Theon reached over under the table and placed a hand on her knee, squeezing it as if in warning. Was she not supposed to speak?”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“When you take her, you will want to believe that she loves you too.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“If you are weak enough to fall, you are strong enough to rise back up. Weakness and strength come from the same place, and both are necessary. Both provide purpose, and both can lead to destruction or salvation.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“We help each other glue the pieces back together, but it’s never quite right. The pieces of yourself never quite fit back together the way they once did. Until eventually, you don’t remember what it was like to not feel cracked and scarred. Until eventually, you are just a shell of what you once were, but you know there’s no way to go back, so you just move forward, even if death’s song sounds sweeter and sweeter every time.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“The dinner was as all family dinners were. The air was filled with tension, and the conversation was dull.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“The way she spoke”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“the mental wounds scarred”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“The pieces of yourself never quite fit back together the way they once did. Until eventually”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“You’re too busy trying to separate lies from reality. You’re too busy trying not to break so completely that you can’t be fixed. But that’s impossible. You always break.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Not having eyes constantly on her. A few minutes when she could try to feel something other than the numbness settling over her soul. A few minutes to breathe.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She tried to read a book”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She quickly lost interest in whatever they were saying. No”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She couldn’t think about anything else”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“I want everything you have to give”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Know that sometimes we must break to be forged into who we were meant to be,” she said”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“With this Mark”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Among those to emerge were six Firsts: Falein”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“all the Marks had been given”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“He was drawing the final line of the third star when he lifted his head. She could feel his stare from beneath the hood as he said”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“It wasn’t until they were back on the road”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Do it”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“We have much to discuss tonight”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Zefira seemed nervous as she glanced at Tessa’s still sleeping form. “Because she is strong”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings