The Boy & His Ribbon Quotes

“I'm a living proof that a heart can be broken a thousand times and still function, still keep you alive— desperately hoping that it won’t happen again, all the while knowing it will.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“Give me a few more years, Della Ribbon. Just a few more before you leave me.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“I…I miss you so fucking much, yet you’re standing right there.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“I will always love you, Della Ribbon. Until the day I die and past that.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“and I was no longer the most important person in her world.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“If I had known what was about to happen, I would’ve prepared myself.
But that was the thing about life.
You didn’t know what to expect until it happened.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“A message that all humans—tiny or ancient—needed nutrition in the form of love as well as everything else.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“Because as much as I would slay dragons for her, I was not a doctor.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“Trees couldn’t lie to you. Bushes couldn’t hurt you. Humans were complicated creatures, and smiles were full of poison.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon

“I pulled Frosty from her hutch and held her tight just the way Ren taught me. And then I told them what he’d told me.”
― Pepper Winters, The Boy & His Ribbon