Top 200 Rebecca Ross Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “My heart is only mine by half.”

— Rebecca Ross

152. “Should I be surprised that I was falling in love with you a second time? Should I be surprised that your words found me here, even in the darkness?”

— Rebecca Ross

153. “I don’t hate sandwiches,” he said, and he sounded more like his old self. “You dislike them, though,” Iris stated. “I’m simply too busy for them. They’re a distraction. And distractions can be dangerous.”

— Rebecca Ross

154. “Damn, he was proud of her.”

— Rebecca Ross

155. “There is always pain in healing,” the lieutenant interrupted. “To fully avoid it is impossible.”

— Rebecca Ross

156. “Be safe. Be well. I’ll write soon.”

— Rebecca Ross

157. “It’s always best to say less, to let others wonder where you’ve been and what you’ve seen and what you think. Let them imagine what could be. There’s great power in a mystery. Don’t spoil yours.”

— Rebecca Ross

158. “Write me a story where there is no ending, Kitt. Write to me and fill my empty spaces.”

— Rebecca Ross

159. “He chose me first,” I replied. “He dreamt of me before I knew of him. His soul found mine before I even knew how to look for his.”

— Rebecca Ross

160. “He felt Iris cling to him, and he knew if he didn’t pull away from her that instant, he never would. He would follow her into her flat. He would peel away their damp clothes and lie beside her in bed. He would hold her to his heart and pray the morning never came.”

— Rebecca Ross

161. “Dreams often revealed one’s greatest vulnerability; dreams were doors that led into hearts and minds and souls and secrets.”

— Rebecca Ross

162. “Don’t run from me, Iris,” Roman said as he began to hobble toward her. “Don’t run from me, not after what we’ve just lived through. Not without granting me one final request.”

— Rebecca Ross

163. “A shiver coursed through him as he looked up at the moon and the stars. He remembered everything.”

— Rebecca Ross

164. “As the stars faithfully burned beyond the window, Roman had never been more certain. He could wake in the deepest region of Dacre’s realm, as far from the moon and sun as divinity could shackle him. He could wake and not know his name, forgetting every word he had ever written. But he would never forget the scent of Iris’s skin, the sound of her voice. The way she looked at him. The confidence of her hands. And he though, There is no magic above or below that will ever steal this from me again.”

— Rebecca Ross

165. “Kitt and I are like fire and ice. I think we’d probably kill each other if we had to be in the same room for too long.”

— Rebecca Ross

166. “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.”

— Rebecca Ross

167. “I would wait a thousand years for you,” Vincent said. “If you asked me, I would wait for you until only my bones remained upon an altar. But if you must leave again, then let me follow you, Red.”

— Rebecca Ross

168. “Mortals are often afraid of the things they don’t understand.”

— Rebecca Ross

169. “The fire in her eyes could have brought him to his knees, and he loathed the facade he was wearing.”

— Rebecca Ross

170. “Ah, my old beloved enemy.”

— Rebecca Ross

171. “To live your life you have forged yourself to be as strong as possible. You have made yourself like a blade that is hammered over fire and quenched in water. Day after day. But there is nothing weak in being soft, in being gentle.”

— Rebecca Ross

172. “Let me be your secret, then. Tuck my words into your pocket. Let them be your armor.”

— Rebecca Ross

173. “I don’t want to fight with half a heart, but all of it.”

— Rebecca Ross

174. “You are fragile yet you are resilient. You hope even when their should be none.”

— Rebecca Ross

175. “Has anyone ever told you that you squint when you lie?” His scowl only deepened. “No, but only because no one has spent as much time looking at me as you do, Winnow.”

— Rebecca Ross

176. “One day, I would perish, and she would live on, endless as the stars. But if we were doomed, then let us fully embrace it.”

— Rebecca Ross

177. “If I found someone else who had the same desire, I would ask her to stay with me. And we could grow old together. They could bury me at her side when I die, and I would be content in the afterlife.” “Then I hope that happens for you,” Matilda whispered. “I hope that you find her.”

— Rebecca Ross

178. “I would love to see you burn with splendor. I would love to see your words catch fire with mine.”

— Rebecca Ross

179. “But Matilda moved like smoke on the river. She came between me and the darkness. And she took the arrow that should have been mine.”

— Rebecca Ross

180. “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. Iris, look at me. You deserve all the happiness in the world. And I intend to see that you have.”

— Rebecca Ross

181. “But all good things eventually came to an end. And all songs had a final verse.”

— Rebecca Ross

182. “If you had touched me today, Kitt. I don’t think I could’ve hidden it anymore. Who you are to me. Who I am to you.”

— Rebecca Ross

183. “I’m Prairie,” the girl said, glancing at Iris. “Like the grass.” “I’m Iris. Like an eyeball.”

— Rebecca Ross

184. “Iris blushed when Roman held up his hand. “I’m the lucky one.”

— Rebecca Ross

185. “She said, “I think you’ve made me brave, Kitt.” His breath escaped him, a tenuous unspooling, as if he had been holding it in years for her. “My Iris,” he said, “there is no question that you are the brave one, all on your own.”

— Rebecca Ross

186. “I want to touch you.”

— Rebecca Ross

187. “He came between me and Death, taking wounds that were supposed to be mine.”

— Rebecca Ross

188. “You have crept into my stone of a heart and softened me, to my immense dismay and utter astonishment.”

— Rebecca Ross

189. “Oh, I would betray you a hundredfold,” he said, his voice rising. “I would betray you a thousandfold for her.”

— Rebecca Ross

190. “Marry me, Iris Elizabeth Winnow,” Roman whispered, drawing back to look at her. “I want to spend all my days and all my nights with you. Marry me.”

— Rebecca Ross

191. “Movement was destined to be my armor. I was not fully an Underling, and nor was I a full-blooded Skyward. I was both, and this had never happened before. I was Matilda alone.”

— Rebecca Ross

192. “This is the beginning of the end, I thought. If heartless gods can be made soft by such love, we are all doomed.”

— Rebecca Ross

193. “I’m becoming a girl made of regrets.”

— Rebecca Ross

194. “Even then, may I find your soul still sworn to mine.”

— Rebecca Ross

195. “I betrayed you,” Roman began, “because I love her.”

— Rebecca Ross

196. “I was only thinking how strange it is. To think how many people we cross paths with in our lives. How someone like me has found someone like you.”

— Rebecca Ross

197. “You crave sleep, even as it makes you vulnerable. You dream to make sense of the world you are in.”

— Rebecca Ross

198. “How utterly sobering it was, then, to realize how seldom daydreams like that aligned with reality.”

— Rebecca Ross

199. “I’ll wait here,” Roman said. “Until you make it safely inside.”

— Rebecca Ross

200. “Could a girl become a wildflower patch, resurrected every spring and summer only to wilt and fade come the sting of frost? Could she become the foam of the sea that rolled over the coast for an eternity, or a flame that danced in a hearth? A winged being of the wind, sighing over the hills?”

— Rebecca Ross