R.A. Sandpiper > Quotes

“How could I forget a face like yours?” he asked. “Your beauty has haunted me for years. Did you think I would not know you in a breath, in a moment, at a glance?”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“And I strode right past him, drifting my fingertips over his hand as I passed. The sheer desire, confusion, and frustration in that brush threatened to bring me to my knees, but I kept moving. His emotions were a mirror of my own. A desire neither of us wanted.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“I deserve it, I deserve your anger. Your entire life is falling apart, and somehow, all I can think about is how I will never breathe again if I cannot kiss you.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“The sea air whipped as the water below them roiled with grey waves so furious they must have carried generations of scorned women.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, A Promise of Blood

“Stay,” he whispered. My heart leapt with it. His eyes had never reminded me more of fire than at that moment, when he dragged them over me like embers.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“I might not have your gift of reading people,” he said, his voice husky. “But I am from the Sightlands, where we treasure beauty above all else. And you, strange Moontouched mouse, are hard to look away from.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“I had become his subject, and he would study me until he was satisfied.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“Finally to her left, a skinny man, dressed in ill-fitting clothes. “The name’s Maggory,” he had said on the second day. “What cause of will has shepherded you to this resplendent facility?” She had studied him from head to toe and ignored him.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, A Pocket of Lies

“If one could drown in desire, I might have done then. My need for him, and his for me, consumed us so entirely the room faded into nothing. We were the night sky itself, endless and expansive.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury

“You must not allow me even the smallest hope for you. For like the moon, I will hang in the darkness for all eternity, isolated from any other touch, thinking only of you. Do me this one cruelty now, and I will stop talking of it forever.”
― R.A. Sandpiper, To Touch a Silent Fury