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

“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“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