Elizabeth

“I want you to be my someone. I mean, you already are my someone. Only I’ve acted like it doesn’t even matter. Like you can just find your someone anytime you feel like it. And you can’t. Having a someone is a big deal. Even though I’m scared of losing you, I don’t want to give up my someone just because of that.” Niko”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“I tell everyone I’m okay,” she said. “I even tell myself that. But I don’t know if I am. I keep waiting for things to go back to the way they were before, and it never happens. I don’t really know what to do. I guess … that’s all.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn’t get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you’d be flat on your back again.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series

“And then one day, one of my daughters sat me down and told me that even though he was gone, I wasn’t. That it was time to find a new life for myself.”
― Brenda Rothert, The Complete Fire on Ice Series