R. Raeta > Quotes

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

“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

“If necessity is the mother of invention, Anna thinks desperation might be the father of change.”
― R. Raeta, 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

“I’m certain the opinions of strangers weigh less than the joy you would be robbing yourself of if you let yourself fear them.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“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 would make a home in her if she would allow it; wrap himself in the blinking stars and inky skies she paints for him and never let it go.”
― R. Raeta, Everlong

“It is only a phantom of the real thing, but she would rather have a ghost whispering false promises of protection than nothing at all.”
― R. Raeta, Everlong

“There are galaxies painted across your skin,” he murmurs. “Nebulas and universes mapped out like artwork, designed solely for one to get lost in.”
― R. Raeta, These Immortal Truths

“Shame is a powerful motivator for change.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“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

“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, These Immortal Truths

“Strength is learned, not given.”
― 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

“Grief is a strange thing. Some moments it’s a weight on her chest, a pressure behind her eyes and glass in her throat. Then, when the tears slow and her breath no longer feels like it’s being torn from her lungs, everything starts to feel less. Numb. It’s the difference between fighting against the current and letting the river sweep her away. Struggle and surrender. Anna thinks it feels a little bit like drowning. Limbs weightless and cold. Suspended in time while the world continues to turn.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

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

“The centuries have given her the confidence that comes with knowing the fragility of a moment—taught her to recognize the insignificance of some and the importance of others. She senses, instinctively, that she has more to lose with the boy beside her by pushing questions than she does by embracing his silence.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

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

“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

“You always know what to say.” “Only because I know your heart as well as my own,” he murmurs, a promise and a prayer. “I see your scars. I know where you hurt.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“It’s hard wearing our differences with pride when the world looks at them with contempt.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“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

“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

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

“Welcome to the real world, Casper.”
― R. Raeta, Ladybirds

“Time touches everything.” “Not you,” Anna murmurs, humor faltering. “Not me.” “Yes, me.” His eyes are dark, but for a sliver of a moment she thinks she catches a glimpse of pale green. “Especially you. Nothing is immune to change, Anna. Not the mountains or the oceans. There is nothing more inevitable; nothing else that unites us so indiscriminately.”
― R. Raeta, 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

“It’s hard wearing our differences with pride when the world looks at them with contempt. It took me a long time to realize that it’s not my skin that’s the problem, but people.”
― R. Raeta, Pits & Poison: These Godly Lies

“when they don’t know any better.”
― R. Raeta, These Immortal Truths