Elizabeth Stephens > Quotes

“There is a proverb that says, ‘When I am with you in the ruins, I am in the garden, but when I am without you in the garden, I am in the ruins.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Heimo

“What have I got left besides a mean right hook and a promise?”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Population

“To the scarred. Scars prove you lived.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Monster in the Oasis

“I am in love with you. I don’t know how long I’ve been in love with you, but it started before I even saw you. Every move I’ve made since your voice illuminated my token and my whole world has been to retrieve you from your prison so I can have you.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“I find myself often entranced by the way that dust and sand moves through the light before I remember that I am a warlord and warlords have no such concerns.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“Even if she does not believe it, she is the star I revolve around. The only star in my entire universe.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Sasor

“Survival means nothing without whimsy.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“We do not have to like one another. She will still be my mate and if she has to be, bound to me like a slave to its master.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Voraxia

“I touch my hand to her chest where her one heart beats and I know everything I need to know about her. What I saw in that first glance, right at the very beginning. An imperfection that matches my own. She fills in all my raw and broken bits. And I fill in hers. Like this we are whole.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Heimo

“Family is not bound by blood. Family is bound by love. You are and have always been a pirate. You are and always will be loved by each and every one of us.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“The few times he has been party to discussions taking place here were during the the three rotations war ended only three rotations ago.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Voraxia

“I love her, ontte, this I knew. But she also is in love with me, too. She has no idea about the former, and is even less aware of the latter. But it doesn’t matter, because I’ll spend however long it takes to convince her. However long she needs.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“I don’t deny that he deserved to fall — he did — but I can’t help but wonder if I’d stopped him, if things might have turned out a little different. Then I remember Haddock’s broken body… Maybe not.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“Can I stay?” I reach up and grab hold of the wrists of his lower arms, still trapped around my face. “Please?” His brow furrows, flattens, then furrows again. He licks his lips, making me want to kiss them. “Deena, did you hit your head? I thought I made it abundantly clear that you aren’t allowed to leave me.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“Rape! Seven suns, Rhorkanterannu, what are you talking about? Niahhorru don’t…” “You didn’t see them, Tevbarannos. Pirates you’ve known for rotations. When we took the Rakukanna and Svera onto our ship, they went mad with lust. Both females were harmed, bleeding, because of us. I was glad when the Raku came for them. We didn’t deserve them, then.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“With her in my arms, I feel wholly focused. There is only this thing between us and it will never end, because it is shaped like forever.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“If he touches you inappropriately even once, I’m going to rip his head off and feast on his organs. The consequences are irrelevant.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Lord of Population

“You don’t need a boss, Deena. You need an enabler. Someone to let you do anything and everything you’ve ever wanted and can possibly dream of.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“Perhaps, there is no such thing as hate, only gardens not yet tended to.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Heimo

“No one treats you like this but me. No one worships you like I do. You are mine, Svera. Mine to protect, mine to mate. And I vow to you that I will spend every solar for the rest of my existence showing you how wrong I was denying you in the first place.” I swallow, stilling for just a breath. “I lawv you.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Heimo

“I also know that I can’t chance spending more time with him in his bed without eventually giving in to what his body wants — because it’s also what my body wants. I’ll be a well-used old human helper with no skills to speak of by the time he figures it out — or doesn’t. And when he doesn’t, he can still form a union. Meanwhile, I’ll be left with no options. Nothing. And no one.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Sasor

“You are my female. My mate. Mine. I won’t share you and you won’t share me. There are no more shekurrs in my future. There are no shekurrs in your future ever. There is only me and my cock and our kits and our ship and Kor, mother to us both even though we come from different stars.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“If I ever attempt to take from you that which you do not freely give, I give you every permission in this world to take my sword and gut me with it.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Lord of Population

“this is a violent world, a savage place, one not meant for souls whose only weapons are words.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“She is a warrior, my female. My mate. I will have her and she will have me and we will be as the Lemoran and Voraxians are in their strange realms where they share only one mate apiece.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor

“We have been waiting for this. For her. For our Xiveri. For the one to release our naxem. Me.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Sasor

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. Rumi said that. Rumi. Jalal al Rumi.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“Even when the sky falls, there is still a hole?” “A hole to crawl out of, a way to escape, yeah. It’s a Korean proverb and one I’ve been thinking about a lot.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken by the Pikosa Warlord

“Manerak is nothing. Not against the naxem we have become.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Sasor

“I’ve made my feelings about you nothing but clear. If you’re too psychotic to hear them, then that’s on you.”
― Elizabeth Stephens, Taken to Kor