Redwine Quotes

#1. The cold goblin spring of the crocuses was past.
The frail and chilly fairy spring of the daffodils was past.
The springtime for mankind had arrived, and the blooms of the lilac bowers outside Redwine's church hung flatly, heavy as Concord grapes.

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#2. Because on some basic, soul-deep level within me, he is the solid ground beneath my feet.

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#3. Sometimes the right thing costs us the biggest piece of ourselves, but it still has to be done.

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#4. Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

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#5. She stares at me, a tiny smile flitting across her lips, and the affection on her face makes me feel like the richest man in the world.

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#6. Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

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#7. No matter what has happened. No matter what you've done. No matter what you will do. I will always love you. I swear it.

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#8. His words feel like a gift I want to keep reopening when no one else is looking.

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#9. Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

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#10. Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they'll use it to heal you instead.

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#11. The courier of wolves the daughter the dance.
Hopeless.
Betrayal.
Forbidden.
Departure.

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#12. I'm bleeding inside where no one will see. Where no one will ever know to look.

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#13. lazy spirals overhead,

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#14. Mind telling me what's so funny?" he asked as he spooned beans onto their plates. "Nothing." Lorelai avoided looking at Kol. "Then if nothing is funny, you two can stop grinning at each other like village idiots and start eating your dinner. I imagine tomorrow will be another difficult day." And

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#15. Gabril's voice was strong and sure. I believe in you, and I've fought for you, because in a world full of people who crumble before an evil too terrifying to comprehend, you put up your fists and fight.

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#16. We walked through the streets with our protectors. We wore our dresses. We gave up our education because that was the price of safety. That was the bargain we made with the devil we knew to escape the devil we didn't.

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#17. I learned that true family is found in those who choose you. Wealth has nothing to do with it.

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#18. I'll stall them. You go," Logan says.
Quinn frowns and looks at me.
"Ignore him. He doesn't get to play the martyr today."
"Isn't that his choice?" Quinn asks.
"Not while I'm still breathing.

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#19. The princess snorted. "If you haven't figured out by now that I don't care what you think of me, let this be the lesson that sticks.

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#20. I'm no longer a daughter.
No longer a granddaughter.
No longer a girl with dreams. With hope.
I'm a weapon, now.

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#21. Mind over matter. Reason over pain.

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#22. Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

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#23. I'm scarred, inside and out, but I'm also stronger. I've learned how to be a warrior. I've learned that hope rises out of the ashes if I let it.

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#24. We all just do the best we can with what we've go. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it ruins everything

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#25. Forget math and peotry. Especially poetry.

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#26. Don't let the bad leg fool you, son. If you hurt my princess, I will be the nightmare you never see coming.

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#27. Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis.

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#28. Even for the worthy cause of giving both Rachel and Oliver what I know they want. I'll have to come up with another way to put Oliver in charge of Rachel. Maybe as her new Protector, it's within my rights to assign her to another?

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#29. It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up.

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#30. Make sure the man you choose sees you as you truly are and loves you for it.

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#31. I will carefully stand guard and if anyone tries to hurt someone in the camp again, I will carefully spill their guts across the wasteland floor and carefully wait for the vultures to feast on the remains.

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#32. Take the blame that belongs to you, and nothing else. I'm asking you to look it in the eye and face it for what it is.

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#33. The truth is too harsh to touch, and I shy away from it before it sears itself into my brain and becomes real.

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#34. The best way to punish a good deed is to announce it to everyone else.

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#35. That's not what he meant," Rachel says again, pink flushing her cheeks.
"Actually, I meant-" I start to say, but Willow cuts me off.
"What? It's true. He looks at you like he'd like to dip you in sugar and eat you up.

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#36. I don't want to pretend that everything is black and white, that people are either all good or all bad, and that I'm the one best qualified to tell the difference.

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#37. And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

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#38. Oh no. Lorelai pulled her hand from Kol's, her skin prickling with heat from absolute humiliation. Maybe if she prayed hard enough, the forest floor would open up and swallow her. If there was any justice in the world, it would swallow Leo too.

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#39. Coin didn't protect you. It didn't save you from your secrets. Only absolute power did that. He

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#40. I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

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#41. I reach up and pat them both on the head. Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

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#42. You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.

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#43. Besides, what do I know about being a wife? There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.

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#44. Please tell me you're not that stupid.
Rachel to Melkin

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#45. A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth."
"I need a big mouth to keep up with my big brain.

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#46. I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it.

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#47. Remember, sometimes diplomacy is the better side of warfare."
"Dipolomacy is a lot easier to accomplish if you've got your foe on his knees hoping you don't lop off his head.

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#48. A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai

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#49. His knives are nice. Mine is better.

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#50. What could be worse than death?"

"I am.

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#51. Healing is the hardest thing you'll ever do.' ~Quinn

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#52. Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

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#53. Nobody appreciates a woman with vinegar in her soul." ~ Melkin to Rachel

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#54. I never thought it was fair that anatomy decided what my brain was fit for.

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#55. I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books.
Why don't I eve put things away around here?

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#56. I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.

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#57. You're worth so much more than anything I can give you. If you can't believe that right now, believe in me.

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#58. Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you'd expect.

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#59. Irina's smile disappeared. "I don't require all of the princess, huntsman." A

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#60. I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

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#61. Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.

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#62. What's the use in being diplomatic? I'd rather just pull my weapon and wing it.

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#63. Her skin was as white as snow, her lips as red as blood, and her long hair as black as ebony.

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