Daughter of the Rain Quotes

“I felt as though I had been offered a whole new world, and at the center of it was, and always must be, him.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“To act when you should stand still is just as cowardly as hiding when there is action required. Always remember that.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“It is not the blood but the spirit that determines a man.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“How long it went on, I do not know, but though it felt like years, my arms did not grow weary. Instead, as the rain pounded harder, I felt my control and agility heighten, and it seemed as though I could have gone on fighting him for years more… as though all of the trials of my life had been building up endurance for this one moment, as though I had, in truth, been fighting Iachor all my life.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“Though my simple work dress had turned near to rags and my body felt fit to fall apart at any instant and sweat and dirt coated my skin, the farther we got from Ain, the more I began to believe that Darien was right. I was still the daughter of a king. The blood in my veins could not be muddied or drained.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“Though my simple work dress had turned near to rags and my body felt fit to fall apart and sweat and dirt coated my skin, the farther we got from Ain, the more I began to believe that Darien was right. I was still the daughter of a king. The blood in my veins could not be muddied or drained.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“Many seem to think that realities are harsher during the waning hours of the night—that in the daylight, the horrors are not so terrible and the fears are not so difficult to bear. I myself have always felt the opposite to be true. To me, the night has a sort of illusory quality to it—it permits the self-deception that one’s troubles are only a nightmare and that all will be set right with a little sleep and fresh perspective. To me, it is when the morning sun rises that everything becomes actual, solid, inescapable… It is a harder task by far to deny one’s true reality under the unforgiving light of day.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“No," again there was the smile that showed only in her eyes. "He is most assuredly not a man. He is who he is, and none other is like him.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen’s crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, ‘when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain

“It felt natural, somehow, to be beside him—natural and reassuring—like coming home after a long journey to finally sleep in your own bed.”
― Mereda Hart Farynyk, Daughter of the Rain