Breeana Puttroff > Quotes

“Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out all the other life there. Trust, love, kindness – none of those things can ever really bloom in a garden of fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“Most of the great evil in the world happens not at the hands of malice, but of fear. Because good people, the ones who would do the right thing, don’t do it, out of that fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“He shook his head, trying to shake the convoluted thoughts loose. He couldn't worry about it right now. Not about how Thomas felt, or how Quinn did, or even how he, himself did. They were where they were, and there were things to do. First and foremost, there was a baby to deliver.”
― Breeanna Putroff

“the things that made you the angriest at other people were actually the demons you were battling yourself.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Falling Roses

“What stunned her even more was how they were both reacting now. They sat there, silent, right next to each other in the darkness, his hand wrapped around hers in a way that told her both that nothing had changed, and that everything had.”
― Breeana Puttroff, The Dusk Gate Chronicles Boxed Set, Books 1-4

“If it’s really important to you, I could like, pick you up and throw you on the couch or something.” That was all it took to start the giggles going again.”
― Breeana Puttroff, The Dusk Gate Chronicles Boxed Set, Books 1-4

“Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“My father says it’s better to be silent than to be rude or say something you’ll regret. But sometimes, keeping your thoughts to yourself is not about being polite; sometimes it’s so that your enemy doesn’t know how you’re planning to annihilate her.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter

“Emma looked back and forth between Thomas and Quinn. “I’m going to marry Thomas when I grow up,” she announced. Quinn smiled, “Sounds like a good plan.” “But you can marry him for now, if you want.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Seeds of Discovery

“It makes me sad when you’re scared or you’re hurting and you don’t know how to tell me and I don’t know how to help, Owen, but it doesn’t make me not love you or wish you weren’t who you are.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Canes of Divergence

“I believe that most of the great evil in the world happens not at the hands of malice, but of fear. Because good people, the ones who would do the right thing, don’t do it, out of that fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“I’m almost eight moons pregnant, Quinn, and we’re in the middle of a war. My stomach is so huge I’m surprised I fit through doorways. I’m snappy and edgy at spoons.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Leaves of Revolution

“learned, slowly, that everyone’s choices in life are limited – either by their circumstances, or by what they value, and usually by both. Making one choice always closes the door on other possibilities. Nobody has freedom from the consequences of their choices. In the end, we have to choose what’s really important to us.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Leaves of Revolution

“My father has always said that the reason you do something is not as important as what you actually do –if you do the right thing, it’s still the right thing, no matter why you did it, and doing wrong is wrong, even if you believe your reason is good.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Canes of Divergence

“Because how you treat her is not about her. It’s not about whatever you think she did to you. How you treat her is about you.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Canes of Divergence

“I’m not saying you should marry the girl, Will. I’m saying it’s okay to talk to people.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Crossed Roses

“When he’d understood that she was going to break his heart, he hadn’t realized that it was going to be by watching her suffer.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Falling Roses

“Dandelions represent the easy way. You pick up a dandelion and it's so soft, and it's so easy and even fun sometimes to blow the seeds everywhere. And you don't even realize what you're doing. Nothing happens right then, except you get a pretty little show in the breeze. It's not until later, sometimes, a long time later, that you look out in your garden and realize what you did.

It's easy, love, to pull back, to hide in yourself, to run and say you're just taking some time, to keep all of your emotions inside, maybe even to think you're protecting me from something. It would be easier still for me to let you do that. To watch you blow those dandelion seeds everywhere, and pretend it won't damage anything. To pretend we won't wake up one summer morning to discover we've allowed a huge patch of weeds to grow between us, opening up cracks in the foundation of our marriage.

Thorns, on the other hand... they're not easy. They hurt. They make you want to give up on the whole plant sometimes. But if you don't give up, love, if you fight through it, allow yourself to be hurt - the result is beautiful and strong. And it will last forever if you care for it.”
― Breeana Puttroff

“You’re allowed to have rules like that, too, Quinn. Don’t confuse being polite and respectful with allowing someone to do whatever they want to you. Some things can’t be solved by giving in.” She looked at Will. “And when Sophia is crossing a line, Quinn needs help standing up to her, not excuses for Sophia’s behavior.” William”
― Breeana Puttroff, Leaves of Revolution

“believe that most of the great evil in the world happens not at the hands of malice, but of fear. Because good people, the ones who would do the right thing, don’t do it, out of that fear.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Blooms of Consequence

“She doesn’t have a crush on me. She almost ran over me with her car!” “Isn’t that what girls in that world do when they have crushes on boys?”
― Breeana Puttroff, Crossed Roses

“Becoming an adult, she’d learned, was a process that never fully stuck, and had to be completed over and over again when one was faced with new challenges.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Sprigs of Inception

“There are many similarities between our worlds, but many differences as well. We don’t have many of the resources, or the knowledge that your world has access to. Particularly knowledge of technology and medicine.”
― Breeana Puttroff, Seeds of Discovery