Aileana Quotes

“Must you question everything?”
“Aye,” I say. “It delights me to annoy you whenever possible.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“For heaven’s sake,” I say, “will you please sip the tea so I don’t have to pour you another cup every five minutes?”
“We’re facing an apocalypse,” he replies. “There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“He loved you so much that when you died, he might as well have died with you.”
― Elizabeth May, The Fallen Kingdom

“One day, you’ll tell people the story of the faery king and the human girl. And how he watched from afar as she lived out twenty thousand human days. And if she listened closely during winter, when the wind was cold and the nights were longest, she could hear him whisper that he cherished her so much he was willing to give her the world.”
― Elizabeth May, The Fallen Kingdom

“Well,” I say brightly, “we’re getting on splendidly, aren’t we? Glad to see you’re all becoming friends over your mutually violent desires.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“He's in my heart and I'm in his. And I think it’s going to destroy us both.”
― Elizabeth May, The Fallen Kingdom

“In what way could keeping me in ignorance be construed as protection?’ I straighten a piece of wire to add to the fire-starter. ‘God spare me from such protection, especially when it involves safeguarding my poor feminine sensibilities from life-saving information.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“There are two exits out of this room. Choose one.”
Derrick chuckles. “What a glorious comeuppance.”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer

“Kiaran looks at me, so still and quiet. I brace myself for his words, unsure of what he’ll say. Terrified by what he’ll say. He doesn’t speak. Instead, he grasps me by the collar of my coat and presses his lips to mine. Kiaran kisses me deeply, with an urgency I never thought him capable of. He kisses me like he knows he’s going to die. He kisses me like the world is going to end.”
― elizabethmay

“You can't win. Not when you have everything to lose.”
― Elizabeth May, The Fallen Kingdom

“«Nel mio mondo, le donne non hanno molte possibilità di scelta, MacKay. La mia vita è già stata decisa per me.»
«È una bella prigione, quella in cui vivi», mormora senza il minimo accenno di sarcasmo. «Mi chiedo come tu faccia a respirare.»”
― Elizabeth May, The Falconer