Irene Davis > Quotes

“Hussar’s wife’ is just another way to say ‘widow,”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“His wry humor must be infecting me, because I immediately reply, “I didn’t exactly have ‘drown in rose water’ on my dance card, Lieutenant.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“I want to keep him here in the warm darkness until his heart can heal from all its hurts, but all I can do is press myself closer against him.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Lang watches as I try to lick the juice from my fingers. Our eyes meet, and this time Lang is the one who looks away. Color creeps up his cheeks, already shadowed by a day’s growth of beard.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Ah, the baker’s cat,” says Fritz. “I remember that beast. The baker called him the ‘Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs,’ and you could tell the cat took the appointment to heart.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Marie,” he says. “I’ve seen many curses, but I think you may be the first blessing I’ve known.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“His words sound reasonable enough, but I’m struggling with the conflict between my rational mind, which knows his touch is a deception, and my irrational body, which is entirely deceived”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Get away from her, you fiend!”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“setting my hand on the hilt of his saber. “If anyone comes, draw this with your good arm and pretend you know how to use it.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Our lips meet and part, and I taste him, sweeter than any sugared confection found in this enchanted land. His hand slides to cup the back of my head and I hold tighter to him and we kiss and kiss and kiss. He kisses the way he dances: masterfully. When we part, I am breathless and tingling from head to toe with unfamiliar but pleasant sensation.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“Pray, do not disappoint me.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“I’m too old to play with dolls, the way I ought to be too old to believe in magic.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“I've seen his courage, or lack thereof, on the battlefield already. This is no time for empty boasts.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“No one, I think, would insist on wearing a violently yellow frock coat all year round if they didn't wish to be noticed.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation

“I pile the plates on the counter and go to the back door. The kitchen is warm from the stove, so I open the door a crack. A winter wind comes in, and I stand for a minute, looking out into the snowy dark and letting it cool my face. What if I were to simply walk out into the back garden? I could cross to the stables, surely full of the horses belonging to the hussars, and ride away into the night to find my fortune. Fly, the wind seems to whisper in my ear. Fly away. But I don’t fly away. I have no wings. My head might be in the clouds too often, but that doesn’t lift my feet from the ground. I close the door and shut out the wind, then turn back into the house and my family.”
― Irene Davis, Sugar and Snow: A Nutcracker Continuation