Rory L. Scott > Quotes

“Fuck, you’re stubborn,” Adrian said, not an ounce of bite behind the statement. I leveled him with a glare. “You like it.” Adrian barked a laugh. “I didn’t say I didn’t.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Are. You. Happy? You waltz in here with him,” he said, shooting Adrian a look of disdain that immediately made my hackles rise. “Flaunting whatever this is in front of me. Are you trying to make me jealous?” I clenched my jaw hard. “That would require me to have thought about you at all.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Dominic, stop playing with me,” I said, sounding so desperate it was almost embarrassing. ​“Never,” he promised.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“We don’t manipulate. We may push physically. End a life or start another. We inspire, but we are not in the business of altering minds.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“So this is a test, then? Any other auditions I should prep for before you deem me worthy enough to be your girlfriend?” Adrian’s mouth curved into a grin. “Just the one. Although, there was never any doubt it was going to be you. It was always you.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Why not just tell Dominic?” I breathed in sharply. I trusted Lukas. I did. It was just…complicated. No one knew about the Fates, except Marcus. I couldn’t risk anyone trying to stop me or try to reason with me. The other half of the answer was, “It doesn’t change what happened. I won’t beg for sympathy from someone who so easily believed I was capable of cold-blooded fratricide.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“May your Rose never lose her thorns,” Adrian toasted dramatically,”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“Reyna had elbowed me in the gut when she thought I was flirting. The idea of Marc Marco doing the same gave me the strangest urge to slam his head into the table.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“I would be insane if I was asking you to marry me because I claimed I loved you. This is an arrangement.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“We fight like we hate each other, and we are going to fuck like it too.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“That’s a big step. People might think we’re crazy for moving so fast.” “Nothing is crazy in the face of true love,” Adrian deadpanned. “True love that has an expiration date of three months,” I reminded him. All of our displays of passion and love would probably look like a flame that didn’t have enough wax to survive at the end of this. “Those are your terms,” Adrian countered, eyes narrowing. “If I had it my way, you’d never be rid of me.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“The second his hand slipped trying to cut off the top of the wax, Dominic grumbled, “I can do that.” “No, I couldn’t let you,” the waiter said, terrified. Dominic took the bottle out of his hand anyway. “Not a fan of other people serving my wife.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“told”
― Rory L. Scott, The Gods Only Know

“Honey,” Adrian drawled, leaning down to brush a strand of hair out of my face and tuck it behind my ear. My heart took off like a racehorse. “It’s best you realize now how incredibly serious I am about you.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“How’s that for emotion?” He said, wielding that grin against me. “Very convincing,” I said, the words coming out as a heavy exhale. “If this whole god thing doesn’t work out, you should try the theater.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“This isn’t going to be slow and sweet, Rose,” Dominic rasped against the shell of my ear and sending a lightning bolt down my spine. “That’s not what we are. What we do.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“So I decided to test it, try for something real. “If that was you losing control, I must say I don’t hate it.” Adrian's nostrils flared slightly, like control was a word he didn't quite understand right now. "I must not have done a good enough job if you can keep running your mouth like that, honey.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“People like love. Marriage. And babies are cute.”

I let out a short breath of laughter. “Oh, so we’re already at marriage and children, then?”

Adrian smirked, just one twitch of the corner of his lip. “If you’d let me. But no, let’s start with dating.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Revenge is nothing compared to you. Nothing makes this”—he tapped the knife over his heart—“beat except for you. And I can’t let you die because you’ll be taking us both down. Live with me, Rose.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“It was a careful balance of magic. Stay too long and your life source would start to fade, take a step an inch too far from the city limits and your soul would never leave.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“If anyone so much as touches you while you’re wearing a dress like that, they’ll find a lightning bolt embedded in their chest.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Did he just say please?”
“I think he did,” I answered through a smile. ​
“I mean it,” Dominic said.
“One piece.”
"Be careful, Dominic,” Lukas chastised. “You’re sounding quite possessive.”
“I damn well should,” Dominic shot back. “Allude to fucking my wife again and I’ll break your nose.”
​“But I like my nose,” Lukas pouted.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“You have to be quiet,” he said, the vibration making me jerk again. “Or do you want me to have to kill anyone that hears you?”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“There was a slight edge to his voice, like he was already attached to this plan and would kill anyone for trying to take it away from him.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“Everything seemed so much clearer when I was solving everyone else’s problems. With my own, it felt like my head was stuck in the sand.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“I gasped, offended. “I would never abandon Maria like that.” “Not even for me?” Dominic asked, mocking my reaction. “Not even for you, baby,” I said, trailing a finger down his jaw, relishing in the feel of his stubble. He didn’t squirm like I wanted him to, just threw his hand across his chest, grabbing his heart. “It’s like you’re trying to hurt me.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“My heart rate was starting to slow now that I was sure Rose wasn’t dead. I couldn’t make her life hell if she died.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“I wouldn’t have told you to take my control if I didn’t trust you to hold it.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Gods' Sake

“I’m sorry I lied, and I’m sorry I didn’t know about this. But I can’t say I’m sorry it happened. Because this means not even the Fates can take you away from me.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods

“Stop treating it like it's something trivial!” I snapped. It wasn’t, not when it was still affecting me. “The reputation was clearly bad enough for people to try to hurt me!” “I know this isn’t fucking trivial!” Dominic yelled, his eyes dark with a crazed sort of fury. “You are not fucking trivial. You are not replaceable.”
― Rory L. Scott, For the Love of the Gods