Aric Quotes

“I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“You want this?'
I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation.
'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could easily be persuaded to share anything else my wife might desire.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“Your mortal's storming the slaver den." Aric's tone was half-amused, half-approving. "I'm hereby inviting myself on his incursion.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“You promised to make me pay!'
'I intend to, Empress, but not in the way you're thinking.' His accented words were loaded with innuendo.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“You once told me I was so good at this game because it's all I'll ever have.' The sadness in his voice had drawn me up short. 'Your words were true, though I didn't wish them to be. Not then. Or now.'
I'd heard Aric enraged, playful, fierce, in pain, and in lust. I'd never heard this soft sadness before.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“You'd think after two thousand years, I'd be accustomed to looks of fear.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“In our first meeting; you skewered me with your sword. In other words: you started it.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“This game is a hell we’ve all been damned into. It’s designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!”
― Kresley Cole, Endless Knight

“I've wrought my family's destruction. Killed those I loved most, with my very touch. My dark precipice has been reached. I throw back my head and roar as recognition takes hold. I am Death...”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“The two of them were acting like such...guys. I wanted to strangle them.”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“I could ask for no better parents.'
'You miss them.' After all this time?
'Every single day out of hundreds of thousands.'
What could I say to that? Anything I came up with sounded trite. Silence fell over us.
Aric drank, lost in thought. And I knew he was remembering the night he'd killed them...”
― Kresley Cole, Dead of Winter

“We all have our curses. The people of my blood are cursed to love only once. You're cursed never to touch any but one. And Evie? She's cursed to love us both. She really does, you know.”
― Kresley Cole, The Dark Calling