Dreams Lie Beneath Quotes

“Sometimes things must break before they can be made whole again, so that they can be forged into something stronger.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Dreams often revealed one’s greatest vulnerability; dreams were doors that led into hearts and minds and souls and secrets.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“But fathers often underestimate their daughters, don’t they?”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Perhaps love was not something easily forgotten, even when it had burned down to ashes.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“One does not realize how powerful a dream is, in the sleeping world as well as the waking one, until it has been stolen from them.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“You told me to get on my knees before you and apologize,” he said. “This is me saying I’m sorry, for all that I have done to you, for all the heartache I have caused, for giving you no choice but to resort to the most wildest of plans to ease the pain I wrought. I don’t deserve your forgiveness, but this one thing I seek, so that I may remain near you.”
I must have stared at him for a long, excruciating moment, because he whispered my name. I shifted across the mattress, sitting on the edge of the bed before him, my feet touching the floor. I was afraid to speak—even his name might break me—and I took his face in my hands.
Phelan’s arms came around me. “Tell me what you want me to do,” he said. “Tell me to leave, and I will.”
My fingers slid into his hair. “Stay,” I whispered.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“It will make you colder. But even the deepest of ice eventually gives way to fire, Clementine.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“My strongest magic was forged from intuition.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“You have crept into my stone of a heart and softened me, to my immense dismay and utter astonishment.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Be patient, be shrewd.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“I lay down in the grass, my eyes growing heavy with exhaustion, and I looked to the mountains, now darker than night against the constellations. And I wondered what sort of things would haunt my sleep, if I ever gave my mind and heart the chance to dream.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“When you said my name . . . the stone within me suffered a crack. And I don't regret that it did, because I had forgotten how vital it is to be known for who you are, and not for who you pretend to be. I had forgotten how good it is to be seen, even with flaws and scars. I wanted you to see me.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Her wild boy…the woman didn’t know how to tame such a heart, if such a heart could be tamed without breaking.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“You dear, foolish, reckless girl.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“My heart is only mine by half.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“But I felt the weight of those inked dreams of people now dead and buried. I felt them as if I had embraced a millstone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“It seemed to take forever, but I suppose when you are waiting for something to happen, the minutes feel as long and heavy as years.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Ah, my old beloved enemy.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“ Clem,” Phelan called to me again, his voice sharp and beautiful as a glass in my mind.
I forced my answer down, down in the tangled vines of my lungs and the wild briars of my being.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Yes. I worry about you, since you refuse to tell me the neighborhood you live in or let me pay for you to take a horse and cab home every evening,” he said in a flat tone, as if he didn’t care that I kept secrets from him. Which made me think he did, rather deeply.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“But sometimes things must break before they can be made whole again, so that they can be forged into something stronger.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Dreams often revealed one's greatest vulnerability; dreams were doors that led into hearts and minds and souls and secrets.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Sometimes things must break before they can be made whole again, so that they can be forged into something stronger.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“I closed my eyes, as if I could see my desire, resting just beyond my reach. “I dream of finding a new home. Of bringing something broken back together, and not just with magic but with stories and friendship and good food.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“Once, he had been afraid of what others thought of him. Once, I had been bent by revenge and coldness and believed myself stronger alone.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“We fell quiet, content to simply sit beside each other.
Phelan whispered, “May I hold you?”
My heart stirred, beating a heady song within my blood. But I said, “Someone might see us.” Which was ridiculous, as I could only dimly discern him in the dark.
Phelan laughed. “I don’t really care.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“I thought about the different paths we had each taken—vengeance and fear and anger and solitude and pain—and yet how all three of us had ended up here, in this strange moment of new beginnings.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“We circled each other, prey and predator, girl and phantom. I was both, and yet I felt like neither.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“I wanted to do something beyond fighting nightmares, moon after moon, trapped in a vengeful cycle.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath

“I remained beneath the surface, my heart broken. I felt as if I had been turned inside out of my own body, like I had been split open and I didn’t know how to hold myself together.”
― Rebecca Ross, Dreams Lie Beneath