Aldrea Alien > Quotes

“Isn't this just fun?" Dylan whispered, not quite daring to hope the hound had come to the same conclusion.
"That depends," Tracker replied. "Is that all you want?"
"No," he breathed. There was so much more he yearned for. He could almost understand why his friend in the tower used to risk falling in love.”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“You ever wonder what our lives could've been like if we were nae like this?"
Darshan frowned. "You mean if I was not myself? Or if you did not have to keep an integral piece of you secret from the wider world? Which one are you trying to ask?”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“Preference," Hamish grumbled. "I've never liked that word. It always comes with the intonation that another option is still viable.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“Happened?" he echoed, one brow attempting to lift further. "And how does that just 'happen'? You two were naked together and you-what?-fell on him? Repeatedly?”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“The man halted in front of Dylan, giving a considering hum as those honey-coloured eyes looked him over. A dozen little silver and gold rings and cuffs adorned the elf’s ears. They glittered in the early light as the man tipped his head up.
Dylan straightened his back, resisting the urge to shuffle on the spot.
Something familiar lingered in the way the man’s lips twisted. “You seemed rather less tall in the dark. No matter. What is it that they say in the army when handing over charge of you to another?” Tracker snapped his fingers. “Ah, yes. I believe it is… your arse is mine.”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“The easiest way to protect a book is to seal it behind glass, but keeping it safe and unobtainable also denies its true purpose.”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“Just an ancient Domian motto. Translates to Offer mercy to the wounded, it confuses the enemy. My father still trots that one out whenever my sisters squabble.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“You need not say a thing. I can practically see the dice rolling around in your head." He grinned. "Do they land in my favour?”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“That sounds terribly optimistic, I know. I blame you there."
"Me?"
"You make the thought of the future that much brighter.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“All your children are doing is what you've always taught them to do: Stand by each other. You cannae ask them to change that nature just because the thing they are standing against is you.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“An aviary gives a bird more room to fly, but it does not mean it is free.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“I'm pretty sure we've just sworn ourselves into a lifetime together."
"Just the one?" Tracker cocked his head. "Does that mean I will have to hunt you down in the next?”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“I have trod the murky depths alone for so long that you blinded me when we first met, but I have basked in your light long enough to know that at your side is where I wish to be.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“That is not how it works, Dylan. The desire you felt was already within you. All I ever did was help you see what you have been denying to yourself.”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“She struggled to think how it would feel to possess a part of her body that seemed like it shouldn’t be there, let alone what might run through the mind upon said part reacting in equally unwanted ways.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“The world is broken and I intend to fix it.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“We could take it slow and stop if you’re finding it too much.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“We can be awkward and inept together on our wedding night.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“How starved she must have been. To crave even the smallest of brushes and to shun it for fear of someone announcing her true self to the world before she was ready.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“Was this the first time anyone had touched her this way?”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“Restraint is a highly prized trait." One he routinely failed at displaying.”
― Aldrea Alien, To Target the Heart

“I am not sure there has ever been such a thing as happy ever after, but we could certainly try for secure mutual existence,”
― Aldrea Alien, In Pain and Blood

“The music would stop soon. As would this floating sensation deep within her.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“She would’ve loved her princess no matter what was in her trousers.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“Not only did the colours seem brighter and the sounds clearer, but everything was stronger.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“She was hiding the real her, even if only for a little while, because it was easier.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes

“Alla faced the woman. Her heart skipped a beat. The already lush shade of Viktoriya’s simple thigh-length jacket, paired with equally plain trousers, were now a deeper blue. And she glowed-a faint shimmer like haze off a summer pond.”
― Aldrea Alien, Someone Else's Shoes