Red Winter Quotes

“Plans are overrated, don’t you think?” He danced back as the first oni swung the club at his head. “I’m more the ‘just wing it’ type.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“Her heart fluttered, her own loneliness gone without a trace, her uncertainty drowned beneath love, her fear of her future replaced by excitement. Delirious happiness swelled inside her, so intense she thought she might burst. He was here. He was alive. He was with her, and they had forever together. Forever.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“We saw what you looked like when you got out. How many times did you fall in order to batter your knees like that? But you kept going.” “That makes me stubborn, not strong,” she mumbled. “Strength comes in many forms.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“He is my other half. He completes me. To tire of him would be to tire of life itself.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“I would forget everything else as long as I didn’t forget who I am with you. This is who I want to be.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“I would have kept you forever, little miko.” His words were soft, almost soundless. “I would have taken you with me wherever the tides of time carried us, and I would have loved you until the very end.”
She stirred, having slipped toward the edge of sleep without realizing it.
Her heart ached, love blending with sorrow until it became another shade of love.
His lips brushed her ear. “Whatever tomorrow brings, do not forget that, Emi.”
A strange flutter of anxiety danced through her. “I won’t forget.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“Hope kindled in her subconscious, an ember that refused to be extinguished.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“And in her heart, love was a strength unshaken by fear or pain.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“I’m sorry.” She gripped his wrist, holding his hand to her face. “I’m sorry it took me so long to realize it.” “Realize what?” The question was quiet, tense. “That I’ve never been as absolutely certain about anything as I am about loving you.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“He is my other half,” Uzume replied simply. “He completes me. To tire of him would be to tire of life itself.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“You are my fire. You are my warmth. Before you, the flames within me were cold as ice.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“What your role demands of you, you fulfill, and that is a part of who you are too.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“Pain twined with pleasure, sorrow with love.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“She saw the man who had chained her heart in bonds she couldn’t escape, who had awoken passion in her she’d never felt before, who had nurtured strength she hadn’t known she possessed. She needed him. She couldn’t bear the thought of losing him.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“She wanted his hands on her. She wanted his touch, his kiss, his everything. She wanted to be his. Wanted him to be hers.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“To suffer is to live. To struggle, to fight, is to know passion.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“She leaned back into him, losing herself in his warmth, his closeness. Why did his touch make her feel so buoyant, so elated … so alive?”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy

“What about death is to be feared? The burdens of life can be so great that it would be a comfort to know that someday it will end … that someday, we will have earned the final rest.”
― Annette Marie, Red Winter: The Complete Trilogy