L.J. Andrews > Quotes

“Hate me, curse me, I cared little, so long as I was the first thought of her day and the last of her night.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Hate me all you want, but don’t regret me. Promise me that.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“I am in your hands, I am at your command, for you have made me love you, and you will be my destruction because of it.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Scars paint our stories, they give proof to the battles we’ve survived, the trials we’ve overcome.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“When I claim that moment of bravery, it will not be sudden. It will be slow. It will be well thought out. I will wait until I have you in my grasp. You may not even realize it has happened. In that moment, I will strike and watch you bleed.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“She was never theirs anyway. Not really. From the moment the songbird tried to appeal to a serpent, she was mine.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Many a mother would happily toss their daughters at your feet.” “Wouldn’t work, I’m afraid. I prefer my women off their knees, upright, and standing on their own.” “At your back?” “At my side.”
― L.J. Andrews, Curse of Shadows and Thorns

“I do not know what kings are like in your land, but in ours, we do not silence our queens.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“What do you not understand? I care nothing for my life if she is not in it.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever Queen

“I don’t mind if you stumble, Ever King, so long as you let me be there to catch you.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever Queen

“So, who are you, little bird?” A rush of something dangerous hummed in my bones. “Yours, I suppose. For a little while.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Books are my windows to another world, another life.”
― L.J. Andrews, Curse of Shadows and Thorns

“If I must choose between two bloodthirsty men, I would rather stand by a fiend who fights for his love than a fiend who fights for himself.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever Queen

“I’m in love with you.” Jonas pressed his forehead to mine. “I do not hold you on the surface of my heart, you are in the deepest pieces where I keep my worst fears. To lose you would mean facing pain so wretched it would destroy me. I would not survive it. Even if I was still breathing, I would no longer be me, and instead would become a cruel, violent, hopeless shell of the man I was.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“She needs me to find her; she . . . she needs me to remind her to breathe.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever Queen

“I kissed her until she understood I would crush worlds for her. I would cross the skies and seas chasing her light.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“You are not weak because of fears, but I will do what I can to help you wade between the fears that are plausible and the ones that are the mind trying to paralyze you.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Never doubt for whom my heart beats.”
― L.J. Andrews, Court of Ice and Ash

“In that moment, when she is the only one you want standing with you against a foe, that is when you will know you've fallen in love with your wife.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“I would not keep wounding my heart for a man who would not take it for his own.”
― L.J. Andrews, Court of Ice and Ash

“Do not sell yourself short and think you are not the most formidable of foes. I’ve no doubt you have the power to destroy me.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“I would follow your darkness, every ugly truth, across the skies and seas.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever Queen

“You ruined everything, and I don’t care. Ruin me. Destroy me. As long as I have you.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“one never truly knows another until they see the darkness inside. Then we made the choice to love all their jagged, broken edges or not.”
― L.J. Andrews, Broken Souls and Bones

“I might’ve been his destruction, but he was my ruin.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“Those flames in her eyes were going to devour me. Part of me hoped they would.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Mist Thief

“Ah, love. You think your peace was won with gentle morals? We all have a darkness within us, and desperation to survive can reveal the cruelest pieces.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King

“I am forever changed knowing you.”
― L.J. Andrews, Curse of Shadows and Thorns

“Do more than that. Take true vows with me. Tonight.”
― L.J. Andrews, Game of Hate and Lies

“You, Erik Bloodsinger, are the kind of darkness I would follow across the skies and seas.”
― L.J. Andrews, The Ever King