May Dawson > Quotes

“I’ll risk the madness. When it comes to you, I always have.”
― May Dawson, Rebel Queen

“You really want to live in another world when you could be a king in this one?” Arlen asked me skeptically, crossing powerful arms over his chest.

“This world doesn’t have Maddie in it,” I said.

Raura said to Arlen, “I love him. He’s so cute. Why can’t you be more like him?”
― May Dawson, Unstoppable

“Don’t they realize there’s no hope for your cold, dead hearts?” His lips quirked at the corners. Oh gods, did the man have a kink for being insulted? Because I could happily dominate him if that was his thing. I had a lot of insults stored up for the royals. I could go for days on his laundry alone.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“sometimes when people care about us, they steal our grudges for their own.”
― May Dawson, Dangerous Honor

“Why are the beautiful men so often such bitches?”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“Why not? Don’t you look at books as friends? Why shouldn’t you always have friends ready to spend time with you?”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“You don’t see me,” she whispered, “and that means you don’t deserve me.”
― May Dawson, Heart of Ice

“we all need a break from constantly striving to be good enough. We need people who love us enough to let us be unexceptional around them. We need people who let us be weak, let us be tired, let us be foolish, and who love us anyway.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“I'd said the last in a joking way, but Jaik seemed dead serious about the notion. “No, they don't. But they damn well are going to try to be worthy of you.” His sudden protective anger reminded me of how Damyn had suggested I didn't let any of them off the hook too easily.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“Mm,” I said. “Maybe I don’t want to live long enough to find out my soul-creature is a field mouse.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“I don’t want to let you make me small,” I said, and my voice was calmer than it had been a moment before. “That’s easy for a woman, I think. To fold themselves up smaller and smaller to fit in the little boxes people want them to—and even if those people love them, well—a woman is still all creased and bent at the end.”
― May Dawson, Dangerous Honor

“In my world, dragon shifters rule. Dragon shifters are always Royals. They’re always male. And they’re always assholes.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“The only thing that seemed more lonely than losing my own family was being with someone else’s.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“he massaged my back. Long, firm gentle strokes of his hands released knots I hadn’t realized I carried. Branok left us behind then came back with massage oil, warming in a silver bucket of heated water. When Lynx spread it across my sore muscles, his hands working each knot of tension away, it was pure bliss.”
― May Dawson, Royal Honor

“Just because a woman is strong enough to handle anything, doesn't mean she deserves to handle endless bullshit from a bunch of assholes like us.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“Jacob leaned back slightly to give me a look behind Jacob’s back,”
― May Dawson, Those Wild Angels

“You're not that kind of princess.”
― May Dawson, Wandering Queen

“I'd been expecting to get back home from the library in time to eat a good lunch. Instead we'd gotten arrested like a bunch of idiots, because I couldn't convince my men not to mess with some of the most dangerous people on the planet: librarians trying to protect their books. Now”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“Pretty sure you’re just a control freak like your brother, but whatever,” I shot back.”
― May Dawson, His Dangerous Ways

“You have to like her or I’ll murder you is not the way to win people’s hearts, Jaik,”
― May Dawson, Dangerous Honor

“she seemed so intent, I let her be. Never interrupt a girl when she’s reading.”
― May Dawson, Dangerous Honor

“It’s funny how when someone has wronged you, they hate you. It’s as if they have to make themselves feel better about what they’ve done, so they start to concoct some story where they don’t have to take any shred of blame.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“You'll see them again,” Honor said optimistically. “I think our stories are all entangled.” “I hope not. Lucien is incredibly annoying.” “But he's not the monster that you thought he was.” “He is still entirely too willing to burst into song, invited or uninvited, so I would still call him a monster.” Nobody loves a bard.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“The world revolved around the damned dragons.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“There was something especially raw about loving someone who would care about you but never love you back.”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“I spun on my heel to regard Raile with exasperation. “Would you stop calling yourself my husbands? Believe me, I wouldn’t have picked any of you.”

“Except you did,” Raile said, his tone maddening confident. “You picked all four of us.”

“I could un-pick you,” I said, gauging the distance to the nearest sword.

A Fae queen might not be able to get an annulment, but murder was always on the table.”
― May Dawson, Rebel Queen

“You’re the best and kindest person I know, Honor. But forgiveness... I’m not sure I believe it can be offered that easily. I’m going to show you I can be a better man.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor

“Talisyn, I can’t own more books than I can ever read.” “Why not? Don’t you look at books as friends? Why shouldn’t you always have friends ready to spend time with you?”
― May Dawson, Forbidden Honor

“Maybe friendship always is a miracle, and we just don’t notice,”
― May Dawson, Dangerous Honor

“Who are you?” “My name is Honor.” He whistled. “That seems like a weighty name to put on a kid.”
― May Dawson, Sacred Honor