but through the bond—the one we both pretended didn’t exist—I felt her want warring with her fear, felt her trying not to remember the way I’d kissed her like I was drowning and she was air.
“There is only one thing more powerful than fear, Aster,” he says, his voice dark and deep, as rich as honey and as smooth as velvet as he tucks the rose behind my ear. “What?” I whisper, nearly breathless. His boyish grin reveals the dimples in his cheeks. “Love.”
― Nightweaver
― Nightweaver
“Cully startled awake and jumped to his feet when he heard the screaming. ‘No’, Madame Chastain said, ‘Stay put. That is not a scream of pain. The king does not need rescuing”
― The Courting of Bristol Keats
― The Courting of Bristol Keats
“My knees go weak under the weight of what it feels like to be loved by someone like her”
― Wrath of the Dragons
― Wrath of the Dragons
“I didn’t ask to be married to a stranger and shipped across the continent. I didn’t ask to come to Turah. I didn’t ask to be jailed in a wilderness treehouse. Those were decisions made for me by the whims of men. So you can threaten to take away my freedom all you want, but I will fight you. Every step of the way. Until my last breath. And I will not go quietly into a cage.”
― Shield of Sparrows
― Shield of Sparrows
“Tell me you want to leave, and I’ll take you back to Roslo myself.” He was giving me the choice. All I had to do was say yes. “No,” I whispered. His eyes drifted closed, his forehead dropping to mine. “Good. I have no desire to live in Quentis.” “Wh-what?” I leaned away. “You are mine.” His hands dove into my hair, fingers threading through my curls. “Even if we are kingdoms apart, you are mine. But I’d rather not be a kingdom apart.”
― Shield of Sparrows
― Shield of Sparrows
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