Hallowed Ground Quotes

“This wasn’t glamorous, or movie-worthy. There was no waving the handkerchief or kissing through the bus window one last time as I stoically sent him off. This was unedited pain and gut-wrenching fear in its rawest form. It wasn’t even the thought of knowing it would be nine months until I could hold him again. Hell, that was the best-case scenario. It was the true, paralyzing fear that I’d never get that chance again. Had I said everything right? Kissed him long enough? Showed him how much I loved him?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“We glanced around the fire at the family we’d made, and I felt it—one of those moments you can’t forget, the kind that stay with you when it’s long past, so you try to memorize everything. It was a deep peace, a contentment laced with the silent knowledge that we wouldn’t be together again for far too long.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“It’s when you realize how close you are to losing something that you finally comprehend just how precious it is.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“That if I ever hurt you, he has a BB-gun and knows where I sleep.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“You have Kevlar. I have a crockpot.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“It’s not. December, nothing in the army is perfect. No amount of planning can make a homecoming perfect, and nothing will go as planned. He’s not going to care about any of those details you’re stressed over. He’s only going to care that you’re sitting in those bleachers ready to welcome him home. You are his perfect homecoming.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“When it comes to you, to how much I love you, Josh, I have no morals. No honor. I would lie, cheat, murder, steal, dishonor everything I hold dear if it meant spending my life with you. No measure of duty, or God, or country could ever make up for losing you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“Shoot.” “I keep thinking of everything my dad missed. All the plays, and games, and little graduations, and I remember swearing I would never live like that. I was never mad at him, just sad, you know?” “Yes. The higher up in rank Daddy goes, the less I see him. And I’m proud of him, of everything he’s accomplished, but…” She shook her head. “It’s not important.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“I don't care how you come home. I don't care what parts of you are broken, or bleeding, or... anything, just as long as you come home. As long as your heart is beating, I will want you, do you understand me? I don't care what happens there as long as you come home.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“How can we ever know just how beautiful something was, how important, how epic, if we don’t at least try to put it back together when it breaks? Even if some of the pieces are in the wrong place, at least it’s standing.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“Love like ours can stretch across the entire universe, so a few thousand miles is the least of our worries.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“It’s funny how they’re the ones that die, but we’re the ones who are changed.” “Irrevocably.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“what we’re built on isn’t just you and isn’t just me. It’s both of us. We’re strong because we carry each other. We build our relationship on equal ground,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“That tiny action rocked the foundation of my very being.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“It’s better to have tried, right? How can we ever know just how beautiful something was, how important, how epic, if we don’t at least try to put it back together when it breaks? Even if some of the pieces are in the wrong place, at least it’s standing.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“I feel like one of the reasons we get married is because you find your person. The one person you want with you when everything goes to shit, the one person you want when it’s all amazingly right. Like you have your own personal witness and cheerleader to your life.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“recognizing that grief lasted a lot longer than people had the right words for.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“His face twisted, and my eyes prickled as though I was taking on a piece of his pain.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“and I saw it there, the wild, echoed grief that still hollowed Mom’s eyes from time to time—the dark, horrible void Dad had left in her that still lingered when she wasn’t careful to mask it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“Love is when you’d lay down everything about yourself for the other person’s happiness. Be what they need you to be, grow into the best version of yourself because it’s what they deserve. Love is knowing when to fight for that person, and when you might not be the best fit. Love is letting go, and the crushing pain that comes with it.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“Her laughter bolstered my soul like nothing else could.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“He was woven into my soul so deeply that if someone were to pull a single thread of him away, I would unravel.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground

“His name was the sweetest prayer in my mind,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Hallowed Ground