Cambria Covell > Quotes

“Aren’t you afraid of my darkness, my dear?’ Hades asked with mischief in his eyes.
"No,'" Persephone replied, "You haven’t even seen mine yet." -kfg aka Cambria Covell”
― Cambria Covell

“Like a noose around my neck, The Fates have tied a string to you and me. It tightened around my roots and pulled me from the ground long enough for you to put the pomegranate seeds in my mouth. And I should want to make you bleed dear Hades, but all I keep on thinking is how good the darkness tastes to me. And when Spring has sprung, I’ll use my powers to grow my roses with the sharpest of thorns, and you won’t know what is happening until I make you bleed.
Love, Persephone”
― Cambria Covell

“Deceptive things, roses. Pretty, and delicate, it's no wonder everyone wants to pluck them. Such a good thing they've got thorns to keep them safe.”
― Cambria Covell

“My brother is the soft one. He’ll give you sunshine and sonnets. But me? I’ll use the moonshine to track you by night, and my bow and arrow to pierce your heart, and take your life.”
― Cambria Covell

“Tragedy doesn’t have any concept of timing. It doesn’t care if you’ve just fallen in love. Or if you’ve just gotten married. Gotten a new house. It will strike at anytime. Like a snake. Watching. Waiting. And you will never see it coming.”
― Cambria Covell

“This is a story that begins in Summer, because it is the type of thing that can only happen when the sun is too hot, the nights are too long, and your heart rules everything. Just north of the Black Mountains, there exists a town called Hay-on-Wye. It is a town populated by more books then people. Which is, perhaps why, it was the only place that could have fashioned a modern fairytale such as the one that happened on a summer’s night in August.
A girl got drunk at a pub. Trying to forget someone.
A boy joined her, matching her drink for drink. Trying to forget responsibility. In a flurry of laughter, false bravado, perfume, and charming smiles they found themselves vacationing in the others world for brief respite.
They were a rest from the troubles of their own worlds. Where family, money, obligation, and responsibility tormented the bright, young things like a dementor waiting to suck joy at every step.
Neither was certain if it was the booze that made them have stars in their eyes, or if the stars came before. But they shared a moment spurred on by Ed Sheeran playing over pub speakers, messy sheets, and tangled limbs as most modern English love stories are.
In the morning, they woke up, sobered, and all that was left was a poem scribbled on a pillow by the girl for the boy. It would have all been forgotten, if not for the stars, and that Ed Sheeran music is designed for soulmates and happy endings. The stars saw how the couple shined for each other that night, and knew they’d make the world shine together.
So, the stars did what they do best.
They shined down on them, starting their journey back to each other knowing they’d need the light through the dark times to come.
-Royals and Rebels: Love and War, book 2 only on Dreame”
― Cambria Covell

“You don’t have to buy me,” I replied, “if you want to be friends, just be my friend. That’s all it takes.”
“Really?”
“Really,” I answered, “this world, it’s not my real world. We’ve got to make it through the next three years, then we’ll probably never see each other again. You’re the Prince, and I am the girl that will be forgotten.”
“Don’t be dismal, Shakespeare,” he said.
“Don’t try to romanticize this, Charming,” I retorted.
He raised an eyebrow. “Charming?”
“You are a Prince, after all,” I said, “it is practically an unwritten law that I should call you Charming.”
Royals and Rebels 2: Love and War only on Dreame”
― Cambria Covell

“Cadoc does not have feelings for me. You’ll see. We’ll graduate, he’ll marry Gwyneth, and I will just be some face in the yearbook that will be completely forgotten.”
“You’re not a footnote, sweetie,” she said, smiling at me the way one might if she were appeasing a child, “you’re Style.”
I stared at her, certain I was hearing wrong. “Please stop comparing my life to Taylor Swift songs”
“Oh please, that’s like the highest compliment I could pay you. It means your life is actually interesting, epic, like a love song.”
“My life is small, and boring. I’m not worthy of being compared to Taylor Swift. I’m…. Jack Johnson.”
“Ha! Whatever you say, Queenie.”
I rolled my eyes. “I’m going to bed.”
“You do that. I give it two years.”
“Two years?”
“Before you and Jasper become Last Kiss. If anyone is a footnote, he’s a footnote.”
Royals and Rebels 2: Love and War only on Dreame”
― Cambria Covell

“You only kiss me in dark rooms. But when I’m with him we light each other up like the sun and moon.”
― Cambria Covell

“Audrey stood there off to the side, shaking her head. “This is the messiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. You three are Blank Space.”
“Blank Space?” I queried. “How are we Blank Space?”
“You’re all going to go down in flames,” she answered.
Royals and Rebels 2: Love and War only on Dreame”
― Cambria Covell

“You're lingering around me like a ghost. Wanting to climb into the body that once belonged to you. But there's no home for you here. My heart stopped beating for your spirit long ago.”
― Cambria Covell

“He smiled. “I needed to impress you, so I’m doing the one thing Cadoc can’t do.”
“What’s that?”
“Sing,” he said, “he doesn’t have a musical bone in his body, and that’s after years of piano lessons. I, on the other hand, spent a summer busking around Europe when I turned fifteen.”
I blushed. “Alright, Ed Sheeran. Do your worst.”
Royals and Rebels 2: Love and War only on Dreame”
― Cambria Covell

“She isn't just the sun. She is the waker of the world, passion in a ball of burning embers, brightly lighting your path. The star that wakes the universe.”
― Cambria Covell