Wild Reverence Quotes

“My home is your home. My arms are a haven for you to rest. My last name is yours if you desire it. I will love you to my grave, and even beyond it, when the mists welcome me, when I am hopefully very old and gray and grouchy and have spent the seasons beside you when you are here and dreaming of you when you are gone.
I love you dearly, Red.
Come home to me. Return to me, when you can. I will be watching the skies and the river until then.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“This is the beginning of the end, I thought. If heartless gods can be made soft by such love, we are all doomed.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“I would wait a thousand years for you,” Vincent said. “If you asked me, I would wait for you until only my bones remained upon an altar. But if you must leave again, then let me follow you, Red.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“But I think you know that the soul can be found in words, and words within the soul. The two reflect each other in the sky, do they not?”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“You hold on to her. But who could hold on to the wind? And—better yet—who would be so foolish as to trust—to love—such a wild being?”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Let me be not loved but feared.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“He chose me first,” I replied. “He dreamt of me before I knew of him. His soul found mine before I even knew how to look for his.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“One day, I would perish, and she would live on, endless as the stars. But if we were doomed, then let us fully embrace it.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“we possess hearts, as much as we try to ignore them, and a heart always wants what it cannot have,”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“War only makes love flame brighter, defiant. It seems to bloom from the bloodshed you leave behind, unfurling from the most unlikely places. From the broken seams of the world. From the graves and the anguish and the fear you inspire.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Matilda?” my mother repeated, surprised. “Why?” “It means mighty in battle.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“But Matilda moved like smoke on the river. She came between me and the darkness. And she took the arrow that should have been mine.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Movement was destined to be my armor. I was not fully an Underling, and nor was I a full-blooded Skyward. I was both, and this had never happened before. I was Matilda alone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Matilda, whom the myths would seek to cut away and forget, all because she loved a mortal man.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“If I found someone else who had the same desire, I would ask her to stay with me. And we could grow old together. They could bury me at her side when I die, and I would be content in the afterlife.” “Then I hope that happens for you,” Matilda whispered. “I hope that you find her.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Time did not favor such quiet stories. Once, I had feared this, until I realized my story was not one to be devoured by strangers. No, this was for him and for me. And if we wanted to tell it, we would tell it in our own way.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“Time had felt unbearably slow until then. Once there is a child, you begin to see how quickly the days pass. How the sennights melt like ice beneath the sun. The seasons spin faster, the years suddenly feel much shorter. You hardly feel your own age, or how the years have marked you, until you measure them against those of a child.
The years, then, began to pass quickly.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“You are parchment”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“I was weak for her alone, and I wanted her to know it. I did not want to keep anything from her.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“I cannot bear to be away from you. Look at me, love. Let me see your eyes”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“I would wait a thousand years for you”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“His heart beat with mine, as if the two were aligned.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“Because she is yours, as you are hers”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“A stack of newspapers sat on a stool, and beside it, lined up on a desk, were three typewriters, freshly built and gleaming in the light.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“I need you to find Matilda a wedding gown.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Then let me accompany you,” I said. “Let me be at your side. Not only as a goddess, but as your wife.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“I knew him. I had been reading his dreams for many months now.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“Do you know what dreams are?” “They are something the mind creates,” I said. “Silly fancies, is what my mother calls them.” “To some, yes. But they are also a glimpse into the soul.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence

“I pray that my days will be long at your side. Let me fill and satisfy every longing in your soul. May your hand be in mine, by sun and by night. Let our breaths twine and our blood become one, until our bones return to dust.
Even then, may I find your soul still sworn to mine.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild Reverence

“It was another one of Vincent’s. He dreamt of the river again, and this time, he also dreamt of me.”
― Rebecca Ross, Wild ​Reverence