Rebecca Rode > Quotes

“Gift? You imply that it was given to me, yet you deny the source.”
― Rebecca Rode, Flicker

“Perhaps impossible just involved taking desperate risks that turned wonderful in the end.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“permeated”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“We all make ripples in the world, Lane. Some ripples die off, while others turn into waves that topple cities. I got myself caught up in one of the latter.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“Treena, my mother always said I’d know whether a guy loved me by his willingness to sacrifice—that my well-being would come before his. The man you marry will give up what he wants most for you. That’s how you’ll know.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“Love is thinking about someone all day and dreaming about them at night, missing them so much it scrapes your insides. Feeling like a whole person when you're together, like you can leap over the ocean and then some. Them looking at you like you're the best thing that ever graced the globe, making you want to be exactly that. Love is somebody you never knew you were missing until the day you meet.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“The hardest thing is being left behind and trying to make sense of a world without them.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“You are the most loyal, most determined, and most fascinating girl I’ve ever met. No number could ever describe you.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“Your mom?”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“Do you even see the orphans living in the street, fighting for scraps? Do you bother to act when good families lose their homes after a poor harvest? Did your father give a moment's thought that the woman he sent to the gallows last week could be proven innocent at trial? Don't act like a benevolent god simply because you've descended to show interest in us. This is something you should have done long ago.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“Your ancestors did terrible things, but so did mine. Most people walking this planet can say the same thing.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“It wasn't fair how the presence of a single person could shift everything in my world out of place.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“No. I’ve spent my entire life doing what I’ve been told. It didn’t work out. Now it’s time to try the opposite.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“This wasn't how I saw our grand rescue going," Aden whispered. His voice was rough, almost shaky, "I knew I'd never deserve you, but I'd hoped for more time to try."
Him deserve me? I hadn't heard correctly. My head was too light to get a grasp on any of this.
"I said I'd never send you where I didn't dare go, yet here we are." A wry chuckle. "I know it makes you uncomfortable, but I can't let you enter that room without telling you how I feel. You've changed me, Laney Garrow. You opened my eyes long before those pirates came. And then they made me a prisoner, and I thought I was alone in the world, but you jumped through that window...well, it made me decide something. If we do survive this, my first act as king will be to rescind my father's Edict. I don't know much about ruling a country, but I do refuse to become a monster. Women like you deserve as much freedom in this world as any man. I won't be the one to take it away.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“Some kisses were worth risking your life for.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“I'd guess death only hurts for a moment, and then all the pain is gone forever. No, not gone. I think that pain—the hurt we feel as we go—I think it gets left behind and spreads around to those we love.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Ignite

“A word of advice. Good and bad aren't as clear as they want you to think. Most of us lie somewhere inbetween.”
― Rebecca Rode, Tides of Mutiny

“You should accept your fate with grace. It will make your life a lot easier.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game

“a time to run and a time to fight, and the trick was knowing the difference.”
― Rebecca Rode, Numbers Game