Top 100 Rebecca Ross Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You mentioned the other day that you think I’m only here to ‘outshine’ you. But that’s the furthest thing from the truth. I broke my engagement, quit my job, and traveled six hundred kilometers into war-torn land to be with you, Iris.”

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52. “But time will slowly heal you, as it is doing for me. There are good days and there are difficult days. Your grief will never fully fade; it will always be with you – a shadow you carry in your soul – but it will become fainter as your life becomes brighter. You will learn to live outside of it again, as impossible as that may sound. Others who share your pain will also help you heal. Because you are not alone. Not in your fear or your grief or your hopes or your dreams. You are not alone.”

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53. “May you be strong and courageous,” he said. “May your enemies kneel before you. May you find the answers you seek. May you be victorious and spirits-blessed, and may peace follow as your shadow.”

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54. “And yet I keep moving forward. On some days, I’m afraid, but most days, I simply want to achieve those things I dream of.”

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55. “But he would come if she needed him. All she had to do was stand in her garden and speak his name into the wind, and he would come when the whisper on the breeze found him. When he recognized her voice within it, whether the wind blew from the north, the south, the east, or the west. Sometimes it took hours for him to arrive, but he always faithfully answered.”

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56. “Keep writing. You will find the words you need to share. They are already within you, even in the shadows, hiding like jewels.”

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57. “I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all.”

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58. “Your grief will never fully fade; it will always be with you – a shadow you carry in your soul – but it will become fainter as your life becomes brighter. You will learn to live outside of it again, as impossible as that may sound.”

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59. “The mare and I took to the fields, chasing after the sun in the west, following the promise of blue wildflowers.”

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60. “This place was dark and quiet with dreams.”

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61. “My favorite season is autumn, because my mum and I both believed that’s the only time when magic can be tasted in the air.”

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62. “She has to survive this, Roman thought. He didn’t want to live in a world without her and her words.”

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63. “I love the heart that is within you,” Cartier said, smiling as his tears fell. “I love the spirit you are forged from Brienna MacQuinn. If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you were, and I love the woman you have become. Marry me. Lead my lands and my people, and take me as yours.”

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64. “La muerte cortaba y serenaba un alma.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “If we must drown, let us do so entwined.”

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67. “She stumbled to her feet. The world spun for a moment – melting stars and a vermillion sunrise and the flap of a bird’s wings.”

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68. “Let us make our names exactly what we want them to be.”

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69. “Sometimes you have to be thrown into things, or else you’ll never do them.”

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70. “They would be friends until they both finally acknowledged the truth. And they would have everything that other couples had – the arguments and the hand-holding in the market and the gradual exploration of their bodies and the birthday celebrations and the journeys to new cities and the living as one and sharing a bed and the gradual sense of melting into each other. Their names would be entwined – Roman and Iris or Winnow and Kitt because could you truly have one without the other?”

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71. “Give your fear a name,” Jack said, remembering that Adaira had once said this very thing to Torin. “Once it is named, it is understood, and it loses its power over you.”

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72. “You don’t waste time worrying about things that won’t even matter in the end. Rather, you take a risk for that light.”

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73. “What was he seeking? Why didn’t he just lie down and die?”

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74. “You dear, foolish, reckless girl.”

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75. “She’ll return soon. Just like she always does. When the clubs close at midnight.”

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76. “The spirits felt his attention shift from them to her. The woman with hair like moonlight, the woman made of sharp beauty.”

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77. “Music had granted once his power. Music now stripped it from him.”

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78. “His laughter was beautiful in the dark.”

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79. “Una persona. Una pieza de armadura.”

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80. “I was content to watch the sun continue her arc across the sky, weaving long tendrils of grass together as I reflected on all that had come to pass, a faithful dog at my side.”

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81. “You should stop eavesdropping, by the way. One day you’ll hear something you’ll wish you hadn’t.”

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82. “I prefer sunsets over sunrises, but only because I love to watch the constellations begin to burn. My favorite season is autumn, because my mum and I both believed that’s the only time when magic can be tasted in the air.”

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83. “How do you make your life your own and not feel guilt over it?”

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84. “My strongest magic was forged from intuition.”

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85. “I’m Iris. Like an eyeball.”

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86. “The days may be dark,” Sidra said. “But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel joy.”

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87. “I thought of the days before us, days we would carve with our hands and our minds and our words, days that would no doubt be uncertain and difficult and yet beautiful in the same breath.”

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88. “A bond that not even distance can break.”

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89. “Do you think we could live in a world made only of those things? Death and pain and horror? Loss and agony? It’s not a crime to feel joy, even when things seem hopeless.”

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90. “My Iris,” he said, “there is no question that you are the brave one, all on your own. You were writing to me for weeks before I roused the courage to write you back. You walked into the Gazette and took me and my ego on without a blink. You were the one who came to the front lines, unafraid to look into the ugly face of war long before I did. I don’t know who I would be without you, but you have made me in all ways better than I ever was or could have ever hoped to be.”

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91. “I try to close my eyes and rest, but I’m too tempted to watch the world pass by my window.”

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92. “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.”

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93. “I tell myself I should remain guarded against you, even as we are fastened together. And yet another side of me believes that you and I could make something of this arrangement. That you and I are complements, that we are made to clash and sharpen each other like iron. That you and I will stay bound together by that which is nameless and runs deeper than vows, until the very end, when the isle takes my bones into the ground and my name is nothing but memory carved into a headstone.”

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94. “I thought you were going to stand me up,” Jack confessed. “You think I would ask to marry you and then fail to appear?” Adaira asked, amused. He met her gaze, his eyes incandescent with firelight. “It felt like I waited an eternity for you.”

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95. “My body demanded that I lie down and try to sleep, but more than that, I wanted to escape reality for just an hour of a blissful dream.”

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96. “He wedged his bag next to hers and then reached for her hips, guiding her back to sit on his lap.”

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97. “Perhaps love was not something easily forgotten, even when it had burned down to ashes.”

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98. “He saw nothing, his gaze sweeping the moonlit yard. And then a ripple of shadow caught his eye, but by the time he shifted his focus, it was gone, melting into the darkness. Jack wondered if he was hallucinating, and he trembled, contemplating pursuit. Could steel cut the heart of the wind? Could it divide the ocean’s tide? Could it make spirits cower and bend to mortals?”

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99. “Is it only blood that makes a House? Or is it beliefs? What holds people together more? The red in their veins or the fire in their hearts?”

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100. “I don’t think you can even begin to understand what your words mean to me. Even if they were addressed to Forest in the beginning. You were a sister writing to her missing older brother. And I felt that pain as a brother who had lost the only sibling he ever had.”

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