Jessica Leake > Quotes

“We had challenged the gods and won.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“There is greatness in you, Ciara of Mide, beyond even what you have accomplished so far. It matters little where your power comes from”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Who knew you Northmen were so delicate?” “We’re as fragile as petals.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I learned to hate the sea. Not because it was unbearably cold, and not because I loathed swimming in its salty depths. I hated it because, in spite of its raw beauty, it brought death to our doorstep”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Demon, they called me in their minds. Changeling. Cursed. And every time I took hold of someone's mind, I wondered if perhaps they were right.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Honor is the only code we uphold and I would die for it.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I am no maiden.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Our tongues met, and the reaction within me was like the sudden flash of lightning.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I do not ask, he had said, I take.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Honeyed words do nothing but anger me.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Leif was a Northman, an outsider, but he accepted me more than any of my own clan ever had.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“take the reins, Leif said, dropping them into my lap. I nearly jumped out of my skin when I first felt his hands upon my hair. With gentle yet efficient movements, he combed the hair back from my face, His fingers were warm and strong as they brushed against my neck, and I could feel an answering warm stir inside me. No one but my handmaiden had ever touched my hair, and having a man touch it seemed intensely intimate. A few moments of a tugging sensation, and then my hair was neatly plaited behind me. Thank you, I said quietly, I reached back and felt the smooth braid. How strange that this Northman warrior should know how to do something so domestic.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“In all the world, there are only two strong enough. One born for it, the other through great sacrifice.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Each-uisce can never be tamed. They may appear as sleek black horses, eerily beautiful, or even ponies, deceptively small. Always their manes and tails are dripping wet, and their eyes glow like a wolf’s.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“This is my fight, Leif.” He grinned. “I appreciate your efforts to emasculate me so early in our relationship, but you know I cannot resist a battle.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Demon, they called me in their minds. Changeling. Cursed.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“A warrior maiden, perhaps, but a maiden just the same.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“The bloodthirsty warriors I’d come to know transformed into loving husbands and fathers; even the most fearsome of them were surrounded by laughing children. Here they were not dragons, only ordinary family men.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Were we to fight the gods themselves?”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“After all I’d learned, after all I’d lost, I couldn’t bear to lose anyone else. I couldn’t bear to lose him.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“Burn, I thought, as cold fire poured out of my hands.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“No one is as skilled as my brother.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“I cannot say that I’m devastated that you will not be riding immediately into danger like the rest of us, he said, reaching out to touch my face.
And I cannot say that I’m thrilled to see you ride into danger without me.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“His hand touched my cheek, the heat searing through the cold. My heart hammered away in my chest as his head bent toward me, my eyes fluttered closed just before his mouth descended upon mine.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“Find the Northman's seer. There is a power you must master before you can complete your journey. The enemy is closer than you think. Every moment you waste brings them closer to their goal.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Who are we fighting? King Leif asked as he viciously cut down one of the Drevlians. Wasn’t I just saying it had been too long since we’d battled, my love?
The gods must have heard your pleas, Queen Ciara said with a grin.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“The seer is a woman?”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“You should know better than to mount another's war-horse, I said with a smirk, Or perhaps he took offense to being called a mare.”
― Jessica Leake, Beyond a Darkened Shore

“Fear is good . . . until it is not. You may choose not to hear what I have foreseen but then a decision will be laid before you, and you will make the wrong choice.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood

“I care for you, Katya. Not because of what you can do, but because of who you are. I can’t even explain to you how I felt the moment when that door to the bone witch’s hut closed with you still inside.
For a moment, he looked haunted.
I was terrified I’d never see you again. You. Not your power.”
― Jessica Leake, Through the White Wood