Jess Wisecup > Quotes

“Peering into the same mirror I’d used growing up, too short to see it for the longest time, I simultaneously felt at home and lost—a ghost misplaced in time.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“Do you think you would've understood? I barely understood. I knew I wanted you and shouldn't and that was it. By the time I—I didn't truly understand until it was too late. I never thought you would have gone through with the marriage. You'd do what you always do, and you'd talk or fight your way out of it — you wouldn't accept it. But I was wrong.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“It’s not your home anymore. Places we used to call ours never feel quite the same once we’ve left.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Despair and Hope

“If they didn’t want you to learn how to pleasure this body, they wouldn’t have spent so much gods damn time perfecting it,”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Fear and Favor

“I tried to run the night before. I only made it a quarter of the way to Olistos before his brothers found me, and we were closer to the Calvert home. Faxon wasn’t there—he’d gone south to search for me—but his father told me if I wanted to wander like livestock, then…” I gestured to my feet. C for cattle.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“And as for Elora being his blood, well, Shivani, when two people love each other, sometimes—”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Despair and Hope

“I was supposed to tell you I didn’t regret anything between us. The only regret I have was not figuring out the mess in my head sooner and breaking down the door at Ravemont.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“First of all, I didn’t try to kill you, it was first blood. Gods, you’re dramatic.“ I did not hold back my sneer as I stood to face him. “Second of all, I never asked—“ “You’re right, you didn’t try to kill me. You just ran. You ran from the thing you needed most.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“We are going to find her. And then I’m going to kill your husband.” The voice belonged to the Bloody Prince, but his soft expression belonged to Rainier. It belonged to Rain. My Rain.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“It’s the same thing when a guy sees you wearing a band t-shirt and asks you to name your favorite songs, as if it’s some kind of fucking test. Men are the world’s most proficient gatekeepers.”
― Jess Wisecup, Feathers from the Sky

“I poured myself into her. I gave her every part of me, and, in doing so, I saved myself. When she wrapped her tiny hand around my finger, it was an anchor, bringing me back to the ground. Every smile from her was a gift, a reminder of what I stood to lose. Looking back, I realized, without her, I would’ve drifted away completely.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“There was something to be said about feeling like a caretaker of someone else’s happiness; it could make you forget about your own.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Despair and Hope

“It was strange to see him so much older. It was something akin to reading your favorite childhood book as an adult. There was a comfort in the familiarity, and yet a different appreciation for things gone unnoticed before.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“She’d commented on the audacity that children had, to spend nine months on the inside only to come out looking like their father.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“Look, one of us has to be safe and protected so the minute, the second, we know where she is, we can get to her. I have to help lead my men, so you have to be the one who stays safe for our girl. In case I can’t. Promise me.”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Wrath and Mercy

“Do you think you’ll always be this angry?” “Do birds sing?”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Despair and Hope

“I had to wonder if any parent had any idea what they were doing. Were we all just trying to do better than our own?”
― Jess Wisecup, Between Despair and Hope