Raine Falling Quotes

“Real men are the ones who go to sleep next to you at night, wake up next to you in the morning and hold you in their hearts all the hours in between.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“Does anyone ever get tired of being brave, Prosper?” I put my tiny hand in his.

He squeezed it gently and said,” Sure they do little darlin’, people get tired of being brave all the time.”

“What happens then, Prosper?” I was looking at him now, the weight of the world on my shoulders.

I heard something catch in the back of his throat and he had to clear it before he went on. “Why they call on someone who has some brave left over, that’s what they do honey.”

“Prosper?”

“Yes Raine?”

“Do you have any brave left over?”

“Little darlin’, just so happens I been saving up a bunch of brave just for you.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“Feeling the relief of him taking her worries, knowing that he would stew on them, mix them all around and give them back in a way that made her feel better. In a way that would make everything better.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“Your drug of choice is the wrong men.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“Raine’s been through some shit.” Prosper was looking at Diego. “Shit that happened in what they call the formative years. Shit that happens when you’re that young, sets a course for the rest of it.” Prosper was looking right into Diego’s eyes. “Shit that she keeps buried deep. So deep she has to wrap her arms around herself to keep it in. Because if she don’t, she’s afraid that on the way out, it will tear her up so bad inside that it will kill her. Stuff she keeps down. Stuff she thinks no one knows or can see or can touch but her.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“But there is no way to prepare for heartache. There is just the aftermath. There is just the picking up the pieces.”
― Paula Marinaro, Game Changer

“She changed him, and when a woman changes a man that way, that man would rather die than go back to the place without her.”
― Paula Marinaro, Raine Falling

“Once upon a fucking time . . .”
― Paula Marinaro, Raine Falling