Top 100 Rebecca Ross Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Rebecca Ross

52. “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.”

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53. “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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54. “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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55. “If we must drown, let us do so entwined.”

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56. “We all hold secrets like breath.”

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57. “Her faith was still some strange, broken mirror in her chest, the pieces sharp and jagged, reflecting years of her life out of order.”

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58. “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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59. “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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60. “The days may be dark,” Sidra said. “But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t feel joy.”

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

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62. “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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63. “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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64. “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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65. “But I realize that people are just people, and they carry their own set of fears, dreams, desires, pains, and mistakes. I can’t expect someone else to make me feel complete; I must find it on my own. And I think I was always writing for myself, to sort through my loss and worry and tangled ambitions. Even now, I think about how effortless it is to lose oneself in words, and yet also find who you are.”

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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “His laughter was beautiful in the dark.”

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72. “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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73. “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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74. “This place was dark and quiet with dreams.”

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75. “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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76. “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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77. “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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78. “Perhaps love was not something easily forgotten, even when it had burned down to ashes.”

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79. “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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80. “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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81. “She stared into its vastness, listening to the sounds of the city beyond her window, the creaks of the walls. It was strange to her – how close she could be to people and yet how far away and lonely she felt. How the night made things feel more poignant and desperate.”

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82. “That is a true gift, to help others see the world in a different way.”

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83. “Try telling that to Luc.”

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84. “You remove a piece of armor for them; you let the light stream in, even if it makes you wince. Perhaps that is how you learn to be soft yet strong, even in fear and uncertainty.”

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85. “I wanted, more than anything, to belong somewhere.”

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86. “Our thoughts aligned, like the moon eclipsing the sun, casting a long shadow between us.”

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87. “You and I must continue moving forward,” I whispered. “We must continue uprooting darkness and corruption, and replacing it with goodness and light. It will take time. It will take our entire hearts and the breadth of our lives, Isolde. But we do not wish we were dead. We do not wish that we were different individuals, despite what the saints or the gods have ordained for us.”

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88. “She realized this was her family now. That there were bonds that ran deeper than blood.”

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89. “Time suddenly feels sharper than a knife grazing your skin, capable of cutting you at any moment.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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