Stormbreak Quotes

“It’s—war doesn’t work like that. Winning doesn’t mean you were right and losing doesn’t mean you were wrong. All it means is that Lir hit us harder this time.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Because mercy is what is left when glory fails us.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“In a way, it’s always reminded me of you.” He lifted his broad shoulders in a shrug. “Though I am not enough of a poet to say why.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“When I tell you I’m fine, your job is to believe me.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“But without the pain, how else will I know I’m alive?” she teased.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“She imagined herself...not at all. She imagined the end, the moment her fight would be finished, but there was never anything after except a feeling of relief. A kind of absence of feeling, as though she had been so focused on this fight for so long that without it she might cease to exist.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Why is it so easy for you to say it?"

Oran stilled. Moonlight pooled into the rings of his brown eyes, making them sad and deep. "Because the only thing I know for sure is that I am alive right now. Tomorrow might change that. And even if I somehow manage to survive this whole fight, I don't see how I fit in the world after it changes. So, I have to say it. Because being in love with you is the best thing I've done with my life.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“I would be those things with or without you, Cala. My past is not your burden to carry.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“I don't say it so that you'll say it back to me. I say it so you'll know.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Yet through it all, Oran kept his eyes on her, and Caledonia was surprised to see that there was no anger in them. Whatever this was to Oran, some part of him felt he deserved it. With horror, she realized that this was what he'd been expecting. He'd known this was going to happen and he hadn't warned her. He hadn't asked for help or to stay behind. He'd come anyway.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“It was a song of survival.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“He was always talking about constellations and stars and making stories out of nothing.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Half of war is just enduring hell.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“And you can’t change this world without making decisions that will haunt you forever.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“The decisions you make now will never be over,” he began, careful not to touch her while he spoke, aware that even if he understood what she was going through, he couldn’t inhabit it with her. She was on her own, but that didn’t mean she had to be alone.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Hiding it from us doesn’t make us stronger, you know. We know you’re not made of steel.”

“I wish I were.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“In that way, she and Nettle were exactly alike; they didn’t crack under pressure, they settled beneath it.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Lir would always be the burning core of her anger. “No one matters as much as Lir.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Hesperus didn’t recognize the perfection of his gift. He could not know that she had always imagined her girls as stones.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“There was nothing she could say that he would hate or reject, because for all her growing familiarity with darkness, Oran had already been there.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Recently, Caledonia had come to know how often Oran’s expressions looked like one thing but meant something else. He laughed when he was worried, a frown that lit his eyes meant he was amused. But this slight narrowing of his warm brown eyes, the tightening of his lips, the tuck of his chin; these were things he only did when he wanted to kiss her.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“We can’t save the world by killing it first,”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Bullet recruits were never easy news. Their surrender was suspect, their recovery brutal, and after all of that their loyalty was never certain.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Every Bullet she encountered said the same thing: she was a killer in the guise of a savior.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Caledonia knew from experience that every Bullet before her believed the lie they’d been fed their entire lives: from Silt comes strength.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Caledonia had no choice but to destroy him. And the only way to do so was to take all his power away from him. Then with it, create a world that wasn’t ruled by fear.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Her brother. Was he even that anymore? It was the word he’d used for Lir, and if he had truly done what Remi claimed, then perhaps he was more Lir’s than Caledonia had ever wanted to believe. Once, she’d had hope that she could win him back, but now, knowing this, that hope was all but gone.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Remi’s eyes brightened with a delight so cruel she might as well have a knife pressed to Caledonia’s heart.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“If Lir didn’t want us coming after his brothers,” she said, savoring the dark edge of her rage, “he should have left ours alone.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak

“Their efforts kept Caledonia free to do what she did best: hunt.”
― Natalie C. Parker, Stormbreak