A Breath Too Late Quotes

“We are birds with paper wings. Just because the wings were tattered, doesn't mean they could never fly. It doesn't mean their little fragile lives were worth nothing.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“We were constellations of misery pressed into a dark and desolate canvas. I had forgotten that the stars were still beautiful. I had forgotten that so were we.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“Hope can't be a hollow wish or dream. It needs to be filled, levied, brimming over with intention and action and belief and reaching, reaching, reaching , stretching until your muscles ache because you want it that damn much, and you won't stop reaching until you hold it.
Until it is yours.
I let go too soon.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“Life,

You were broken, often ugly, and always too much, but you also hid promises in pockets , tucked hope under matresses, and crammed a thousand perfect moments between the shards of sharp and treacherous ones.
I am sorry I had forgotten them.
I am sorry I didn't even see.
And a breath too late, I realized...
I loved you.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“The girl I love.
The girl who left.
The girl we will remember.
She once told me that you have freckles just like her....
I hope the world gets to see them.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“You aren’t beautiful, free, or romantic like in all of the novels I have read. You are a girl who had no hope left, who realized, too late, she wanted to live. I thought you would save me, Death.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“We were locked in a box for so long, I didn't want to bury you in one.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“Girls like me shouldn't have big dreams. They stay in their houses of secrets and die there.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“And then I told our story. Without our names. Without this town. I told a story of swords and sorrow and secrets. I told of a shadow who learned to breathe and a boy who learned to paint the world bright and new.

The only three words I didn't say were "I love you." But every word had those three crammed between them. "I love you" was swinging from every syllable and hanging off every letter. I love you was whispered in every single line.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late

“You are too quiet. The kind of quiet that isn’t quiet at all. It is the smothering silence that bleeds into everything; the kind of absence that mocks, prods, and stares you down until you are withered to your bones.”
― Rocky Callen, A Breath Too Late