Renee Dugan > Quotes

“I wasn’t aware she was an heirloom with a reward for her safe return,” Quill said, and Julian’s fingertips dug into Cistine’s arms. “I don’t charge for the safety of women. Consider it the day’s charitable act. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have business with a pair of men from the Aliment.”
― Renee Dugan, Darkwind

“Mine, actually. I don’t want to be valued for the crown on my head or the curves under my dress. If a man can’t be bothered to spend time learning to know me, I won’t waste time being courted by him.”
― Renee Dugan, Darkwind

“Your friends love you, Audra. Trying to protect you, to save you, even…that’s not a burden. It’s a privilege.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“All my life, I’d never felt anything like that. I don’t have a single story to tell, but whatever’s in me, whatever I’m made of…it knows you, too. And I’m some kind of luckless coward, because all I wanted to do was run from it. I had to get away as fast as I could, because, right then, I knew my life wasn’t going to be the same. Even if I’d dodged you, you would’ve stayed with me. I would’ve gone back to the Tankard and looked for you every night, even if you never knew I was there.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“I wondered if maybe you’d agreed to actually be quiet, for once in your life.”
“Ah, tiger,” he scoffed, rocking to his feet with arms laden in clothes, “no purchase in this country is worth silencing these golden tones.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“It’s a complicated story.” Jaik offered his hand to me, palm up on the bartop. “Do you want to hear it?”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“I was telling this to him. For him. This character come alive, whose face had found a home in the tale.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“You’re bloody right I do, sweetheart.”
― Renee Dugan, A Tale Told By Traitors

“We don’t have to be what they make us,” he said. “We can be whatever we make ourselves. We can rewrite this story. We can tell it however we want.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“You don’t happen to think the first finished story in years is more important? It’s a cat, Jaik, it can fend for itself!” He jabbed a finger at me. “All right, first, you don’t know a thing about Sheeba. Second, why do your problems suddenly have to be my problems? I don’t even know you!” “But my stories know you!”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“Sit.” I plucked his soup bowl from his hand, settling it into mine. “Speak.” He imitated a baying hound,”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“Yeah?” His nearest hand crept over to mine, covering it in a warm cage of sweat-tinged skin. “And who disarmed him in a completely arresting, unforgettably sensuous way?”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“I can’t think of any scenario worse than having my face wedged in your sweaty armpit while you explain all the ways I failed a leglock.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“So, what am I, tiger?”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“Whatever the opposite of a good-luck talisman is,” Jaik hissed out of the side of his mouth, “that’s what you are.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“I suppose everyone we admire, they really are all just…people. Flawed and wonderful in their own ways.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“Please, tell me you’ve come to end me.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet

“But this was not an ending; it was a new beginning, and I was determined to make it the best one I could.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet