Thea Guanzon > Quotes

“Do you make it a habit to compliment everyone who's trying to kill you?"

"Not everyone." His eyes flashed with a hint of amusement. "Just you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“May the gods help me. Alaric resisted the urge to put his head in his hands in a fit of despair. I’m attracted to my wife.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Given our respective objectives, it would probably save a lot of time if we died together.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“You've been fighting all your life, Your instinct is to strike first, before anyone can hurt you. But, sometimes it's the blow the molds us. Taking it. Letting it ring against our defenses, until we are assured in the the knowledge that, when it's over, we will still be standing.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Fire of my blood, sun of my soul, I would raise my armies in your defence and I would stand by your side though the Eversea itself be against us.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“I hate you," she spat.
Alaric sneered at her. "See? Already you are acclimatizing so well to married life.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Someone finally understood. Someone could give voice to all the things that he could never put to words.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Until we meet again, Lightweaver." His gray eyes were back to being hard and impassive. "In the meantime, do try not to let more falling rocks get the best of you when I'm not around to help.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“She was all too familiar with what it was like to have one’s day ruined by Alaric Ossinast.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“I bring you the whole of my heart at the rising of the moon and the setting of the stars.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Come on, darling, some darkly wicked, impulsive part of him thought, one last fight before I leave you.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“By the gods. He was unable to tear his gaze away. She ate like she fought. Relentless and without mercy.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“We can’t all be overgrown trees, my lord,” she retorted,”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“And what was grief, but a memory of love?”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“He stiffly offered his arm out to her, and Talasyn turned just the slightest bit pink. It was fetching. Alaric briefly considered punching himself in the face.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“For as long as there is breath in my body, you will not face this world alone, Guinevere.
Do you understand?”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“Without restraint, in times of good fortune and in times of trial, in light and in darkness, and in life and beyond, in the Sky Above the Sky where my ancestors sail, where we shall meet and remember, and where I will marry you again.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“He dreamed of her.
She returned his kisses eagerly, as though they lived in a world where there had never been a war and he was wanted and adored—and that was how he realized he was dreaming.”
― Thea Guanzon, A Monsoon Rising

“He grabbed her wrist before she could draw it back. “I liked you better when you were afraid of me,” he drawled. “Well, I liked you better when you were unconscious.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“It was not a sweet kiss. Talasyn would have been foolish to deem Alaric Ossinast capable of sweetness, but she’d heard that first kisses were supposed to be sweet. This was violent, almost brutal. His lips were as soft as they looked, but they were relentless. Furious. And she couldn’t help but give as good as she got, just as she’d done her whole life.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Life could get hard and mean, but I didn't have to be.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“Could it be that being nicer to the Lightweaver made her nicer to him as well? Could Sevraim, in fact, be a genius? He could never tell him he was right.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“She bristled. “You are my consort. You don’t get to order me around.”
“You are my empress,” he shot back. “You answer to me.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“You’re all these things. But, Guinevere—” Her name hitched in his throat. Her name was a quiet rasp in this place of shadows and water. “You are also very kind and sweet, and much braver than you give yourself credit for. And you’re so…” He paused, as though struggling to find the right words. “You’re so interested in everything,” he whispered at last. “In all that this world has to offer. Your heart is bigger than the Marrow Valley. I don’t think I could leave you if I tried.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“Talasyn blinked at the trees on the rooftop, dark against the dimming sky. It was a revelation, to be held like this, to have someone else’s warmth so near, surrounding her. It was hunger, the thing that made her tighten her arms around his neck until there was no more space between them, skin to skin, the urgency with which he had latched on to her echoing everything that her soul had cried out for all these years.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“Their love has seemingly insurmountable odds stacked against it, but it manages to blaze amid the darkness in the same way that our stories, our ancestral memory, our hope can survive three waves of conquerors. Love can make us do impossible, beautiful, terrible things. Love can bloom like revolution.”
― Thea Guanzon, The Hurricane Wars

“That’s it, Tala.” Alaric pressed a feverish kiss to her temple, then another one to her jaw. He sounded as broken as she felt, that deep rasp of a voice guiding her higher. “Come all over your husband’s wedding ring.”

He watched her the way one watched a sunrise.”
― Thea Guanzon, A Monsoon Rising

“Be kind to me, Alaric had said. He’d been at her mercy, broken and bruised and the valerian ensuring that he had no defenses left, and that was what he’d asked of her. Be kind to me.”
― Thea Guanzon, A Monsoon Rising

“It is my duty to marry well. Father writes that Lord Wensleydale is not too old and has all his teeth.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“I was here first,” she seethed, “you unbelievably annoying man—”
His arms opened to receive her and she crashed into his wide, solid chest, and then they were kissing.”
― Thea Guanzon, A Monsoon Rising