Peaches & Honey Quotes

“Funny how a new idea from the mind of man is innovation, but the observations of a woman are written off as fanciful wonderings of a girl made too idle.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Where the book burns, they will, in the end, burn human beings too.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

“If necessity is the mother of invention, Anna thinks desperation might be the father of change.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Anna wonders if that’s what Time does—wears the humanity out of you until the promise of death pulls no more emotion than the promise of rain.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Loving him came to her the way snow melts into creeks, then rivers, then oceans. Time has engraved him into her heart the way the rivers have carved canyons and glaciers have cut fjords.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“He tastes like pasts and futures, like whispered memories and lucid dreams. He feels like coming home.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Nightmares aren’t without end. At some point, you wake up.” Anna bites her lip, chest heaving around a sob she refuses to release. “I’d like to wake up now.” His stare is pitying. “I know.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Anna shakes her head, more questions on her lips, but he reaches for her—palms cupping her cheeks and forcing her still. “The world was cruel to you, Anna. You were stolen from your homeland, blamed and exiled for the patterns on your skin. They gave you reason after reason to be hateful, to be selfish. Instead, you saw a stranger in the woods and you brought her back to your meager home, offered up the little food you had despite the hunger lining your eyes.” His thumb brushes over her cheek, his face so close she can feel his sigh on her lips. “Do you not see how rare that is? Do you not see how wondrous you are?”
― R. Raeta, Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Strength is learned, not given.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Death will not come for you.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Words we hold on to only grow harder to uproot. Ask now before things get too tangled to let go.”
― R. Raeta, These Immortal Truths

“Anna appreciates that he trusts her to know what she wants; that time has taught him her ways as surely as it has taught her his.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“She’s still a sparrow of a woman. Hollow-boned and fragile. Easily broken. He wonders how long it will take for her to realize that the thing that makes her weak is the same that will allow her to fly.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“A smile or a laugh is a balm to every bruise and fracture marring his soul.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“That it’s not that her heart is too fragile, but the world is too hard.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“There are so many words for her and yet they’re never enough. He could list her virtues, point out every gleaming triumph, and she still wouldn’t understand. So when she asks, he doesn’t tell her the answer. He shows her.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“The world is changing.” “The world is always changing,” he counters, not unkindly. “You know that.” “Yes, but it feels faster now. Sometimes it feels like it’s going so quickly, I can’t keep up.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“He kneels in front of her, dark brows furrowed over familiar blue-green eyes. Khiran’s hand slides along her jaw, tipping her chin up so his eyes can trace over the skin of her neck. “Let me see.” There’s nothing to see, she knows there isn’t, but somehow he knows anyway. “I don’t bruise,” she murmurs. A truth he should already know. His touch is gentle where not an hour earlier another pair of hands were not. “Not that they can see,” he says, voice soft with regret. “And you can?” “Yes, Anna.” His gaze lifts, eyes dark with shadows. “I can see where you hurt.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“He knew it would come—the tears, the pain. He knew it would hurt her in ways that left a mark. What he didn’t expect was to feel his heart ache in response.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Because there will be a next one. And one after that. And another after that. War is a certainty that can’t be denied. It’s as inevitable as every other disaster that haunts humanity. Famine, pestilence, and war: Death’s favorite playthings.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“She is everything he wants and better than he dreamed. A brush of her lips and the aching weight of the world is forgotten. A smile or a laugh is a balm to every bruise and fracture marring his soul. Then she looks up at him, begs him for the one thing he dares not give, and he is reminded of how fragile the peace they’ve found really is.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“It’s the drop of rain that breaks the dam; the subtle breeze that turns a flame into a blaze. She feels it, igniting her blood and spilling over her eyes. The words that leave her lips are liquid heat, cracking through the air between them like lightning.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Khiran’s eyes are deep and dark; ocean waters that have no end. Bottomless. They drown her, but this isn’t a flood she wants to escape. There is warmth there, tenderness. It envelops her, but instead of feeling trapped, she only feels safe.
No one, not even Piers, not even Eira, has managed to give her that feeling. When everyone else leaves, when they never come back, Khiran does. He flits in and out of her life like the seasons, but when he fades away from her life, it’s with the unwavering faith that she’ll see him again. Next spring, next fall. He’ll find her when she is falling to pieces or when she’s whole. There’s comfort in that. Comfort in knowing he’ll be there when no one else can be.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches & Honey: These Immortal Truths

“You are not responsible for anyone’s actions but your own.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“There is no pain like outliving a child.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Some”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths

“Even though she knows it’s useless. Even though she knows he’s already decided, and that weak minds are always the last to change.”
― R. Raeta, Peaches and Honey: These Immortal Truths