Avalkyra Ashfire Quotes

“Someday soon you’ll call me Queen.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“How did Val know? How did she always know the way to Veronyka’s heart—and why did she always do damage when she got there?”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“She squeezed her eyes shut and stopped resisting. She fell into his arms, where he held her gently for a heartbeat then sighed. She thought of Val again. For all her dragging and pulling and demanding, all their ways their bodies had come into contact—and conflict—with each other over the years, Val had never given herself to Veronyka like this. Never offered herself at all. With Val, everything was take, take, take.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“A surge of anger blossomed in her stomach. She would fashion a new crown and take the feathers from this phoenix’s corpse if she wanted. She was Avalkyra Ashfire. She was a queen. None would shine brighter or burn hotter than her.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“What had she done all her life when the world refused to give her what she needed? What she deserved? She had taken it.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“The only name in the world that could inspire love, loyalty, and most of all, hatred, from the Feather-Crowned Queen herself. Pheronia Ashfire.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“No matter the cost, she couldn’t give up now, not when the possibilities unfurled before her. If she could make this work, she would be the first Phoenix Rider in history without a bond. If anyone could do it, Avalkyra Ashfire could.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“Veronyka didn’t know the man who owned it would never return, thanks to a quiet knife in the dark delivered by Avalkyra’s steady hand.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“Of course, old habits were like phoenixes—rising again and again—and the next thing she knew, they were locked together like snarling beasts. Avalkyra was fighting for something beyond measure—their future—and Veronyka was fighting because she was angry and afraid and knew that if Avalkyra wanted the box, it was worth fighting for.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“If Pyra had to burn for Veronyka to be by Avalkyra’s side, so be it.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“A sense of tightness, of long-awaited justice, expanded in Avalkyra’s chest. This is how it was meant to be: Avalkyra standing proud, a queen once more, and her loyal subjects bowing before her.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“Something powerful happened, however, when a shadowmage was invited in. Knowledge of shadow magic made a mind more susceptible to influence, and if that person chose to welcome that magic inside . . . well, it made putting a bind much easier. Avalkyra had put binds on her entire patrol, and she would do it again, one by one.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“Yes, she wanted answers, and Val promised them—at a price, of course. With Val there was always a price.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames

“Val was still her family—and would have been regardless of what that birth certificate said—but now Veronyka was an Ashfire. A royal line. Descended from queens.”
― Nicki Pau Preto, Heart of Flames