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

“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

“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 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

“But I don’t like socks in general. I don’t like the feeling of them on my feet. It’s just…gross.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“He was in jeans and a long-sleeve thermal.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Theon, why are we down here?”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“That just made her more agitated, so now she only spoke to either of them when absolutely necessary.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She dropped her head to the animal’s neck and sobbed.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She sucked in a breath. “I’m not yours.” “Lie to yourself, but not to me,”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Her head tilted to the side as she watched them lick against the glass that contained them. That stifled the wildfire they longed to burn. Her hand drifted up to her throat, her fingers grazing where the choker had sat. The fire just wanted to be free to do what its nature demanded of it, but it was stuck inside a glass box. It was contained so that others could harness its energy and stay warm or admire its deadly beauty. To be used and snuffed out with the flick of a switch.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Be what they want you to be now, so you can be who you were meant to be later.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Because despite what you seem to have convinced yourself of, it is more than a bond, Tessa.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Do you? Because when you came here twenty years ago and told me your plans, I was wary.” “I was sent here,” the male snarled. “Are you questioning him?”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“And I have not spent the last twenty years in this forgotten realm only to fail now. Failure is not an option.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“She helped me get Auryon into a dream plane. She was being attacked by an Achaz Legacy.” Saylah’s lips thinned. She knew Achaz’s vendetta to hunt down every descendant of Arius and Serafina. To see every bit of life that came from them extinguished from existence.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Temural gestured at the Huntress. “Auryon has seen her. It is how I know she needs help.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“I sent him there to take his son to my daughter, but I have not heard from him since he left here.” “Xan has another child?”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“That is where Xan is. You sent your Guardian to Devram.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Akira sent her there.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

“Why?” Saylah said in shock. “A tale for another time, Saylah. She sent aid before her. Taika helped her. After I learned where she was, I sent more protection at a great cost, but it is proving not to be enough.”
― Melissa K. Roehrich, Rain of Shadows and Endings

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