After Rain Falls Quotes

“Seeing him like this, knowing I can’t do shit to ease his pain, take the burden of his sorrow and put it on my shoulders instead. It’s what you do when you care about someone. When they mean the world to you and you would do just about anything for them.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“I pray I’m the only one who has to walk out of this hospital heartbroken.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“said I’d only stay as long as he didn’t want me to leave. I’d only go when he told me to. All the oxygen is sucked out of the room and I feel like I’m gasping for air when I finally fucking realize... He doesn't want you. He doesn't need you.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“The words hit me hard enough, I wish I would’ve taken the bullets instead. Because this...hurts so much worse.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“He’s losing it. No, losing it is the understatement of the century. What is more than wrecked? Destroyed? Obliterated? Fucking annihilated.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“You die, I die too,” I murmur gruffly into his hair, barely more than a whisper tearing itself from my throat. “I go where you go, River. That’s what forever means.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“I’m here until he tells me to leave,” he finally says, his voice now detached. “That’s what you do for the people you love.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“So you need to take it or leave it, because I’m not changing for anyone. Not even you.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“But I was wrong, baby. I think I prefer the taste of your tears.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“How the hell can he be this blind? How can he not see that this is hurting me just as much as it is him?”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“He’s mine. Only mine. Just like I’m his. And I know now, we’re no longer an almost. We’re everything.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Sometimes forever...is shorter than you think.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“The only thing that isn’t a secret is the love I still hold in my heart for the person who will never feel the same. A love that will, more than likely, be there until my last day on Earth. Another thing taken to the death. But none of it matters in the end.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“And I swear to you, River. No matter what, I’ll follow you anywhere.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Holding the ring up for him to see, I push my anxiety to the side and offer everything I have to give. “Because you fought for us at every turn, even when you had no reason to. Gave me hope for a better future. Held my hand and had my back and supported me through whatever life threw my way. And I want to do those things for you too. I want to spend the rest of my life making you as happy as you make me, if you’ll let me.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“It’s perfect,” he smiles, coming over to place a kiss on my lips. “I already see a lot of surfaces for us to—” “Really? You’re insatiable,” I laugh, cutting him off.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“I swear to fucking God, River. And if you try to die on me again, I’m gonna find a way to bring you back to life just to kill you myself.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“don’t need to be reminded of what a disappointment my father truly”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Fine,” I say. “Then you can go. Leave. I don’t need your love or acceptance. I’ll have Mom and Willow and Rain—”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“but respect isn’t something everyone deserves. It’s earned.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“A flatline.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Even if it's painful. Even if rebuilding the bridge takes years. And even if the person might not be worthy. Holding onto the pain only hurts me more in the end.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“I can never take these things back, Ciaráin. Not believing you when you were only a child. Letting him control both of us. No matter how much I want to try, I can't rewrite history. But if you'll let me, I'd like the chance to make it up to you.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“And while he cries, I pray to whatever higher being there might be to save River. Fuck, I pray to River himself to get through this. He needs you. More than he's ever needed me.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Walking over and sliding down the wall next to him, I reach out and grab his hand in mine, needing to comfort him in some fucking way, even though I know he probably doesn't want it. So when he turns and pulls me in for a hug, I'm rendered speechless.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“Myself included. But I still try, because when the people you love are hurting, you do anything to help them through it. Even if it shatters your own heart in the process.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“His eyes, a vivid gold as they tears spill over to streak his face, finally meet mine and everything I thought I knew about love starts to splinter. My heart drops to my stomach before they both quickly rise to my throat, forming a blockage so large I can’t fucking breathe. Breathe, Roman. He needs you.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“If I don’t do everything in my power to get River to a hospital, I’ll live with regret for the rest of my life. Even if I got Rain in the end. It would eat away at me, consume me from the inside out. And as much as I love him, I don’t want to be his second choice. I don’t want to be his consolation prize.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“it could’ve been Rain on the pavement, blood pooling around him at astronomical speeds. Then I would be the one who is shattered beyond repair.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls

“And hell, while this might be the biggest mess in the goddamn world, I’ve never been more grateful to be in the most fucked up love triangle in existence. I’m starting to see now it’s not even a triangle. It never was. Just a circle surrounding the two of them with me desperately trying to barge in.”
― C.E. Ricci, After Rain Falls