Captured Quotes
"Surprisingly the thought of being dead aroused even less fear in her than the alternative did."
"She knew a world of woods and concealment and hunting and struggling for her meals."
"Love was not freely given, hugs were not exchanged, and the only praise she had ever received was for her far superior skills with a bow and arrow."
"She would rather feel the sting of a thousand needles than be repeatedly used for months, or years."
"She could not move against the crush of bodies pressing against her."
"The smell of smoke clung to her; she could taste the ash upon her tongue."
"I will come for you Aria. I promise you that."
"Everything was sparkly and bright, huge and wonderful."
"For a moment she didn’t know fear, or hunger, or filth. For a moment she knew only beauty and peace."
"She didn’t care though, she was angry, she was frightened, and she was tired of being treated like something worse than an animal."
"You will either allow them to do this, or I will do it."
"Her clothes were always rough, ragged, and nowhere near as warm as this gentle cloth."
"But they could not take away the bruises and scratches that marred her skin."
"I don’t know; she’s most certainly not anything to look at. The prince must have decided that it would be good to have a blood slave available to him whenever he was hungry."
"She was a pretty enough thing now that the layers of dirt had been removed from her."
"There is survival of the fittest, and then there is cruelty."
"Everything you do to me will be done by force."
"It is the law of the world that the strongest will prevail."
"Most people returned to their homes when the war was over. Most people picked up the lives that they had left behind."
"Ivanhoe? It is quite entertaining, and something I thought you would enjoy as he was a bit of a rebel himself."
"Would you like to go for a walk in the gardens?"
"If you are to go out in public you must wear this, it is a custom."
"She may be humiliated, and at his mercy, but she was not going to allow herself to be beat down."
"For the first time he admitted to himself that he actually admired this wisp of a human before him."
"It’s even more beautiful down here," she breathed.
"Roses," she repeated, running her fingers lightly over the petals. "I love them."
"Two wrongs don’t make a right, or at least that’s what my dad always told my brother’s and I."
"I don’t know what to make of any of it. It’s scary and it’s disconcerting, and I am so far out of my league here that I have no idea what is going on."
"I don’t know if you’re playing with me while plotting my death, I don’t know what the hell is going on here. I’ve heard the stories and I’ve seen the damage your kind can do."
"He wanted her trust even more than he wanted the blood he could hear thrumming through her veins, and smell in the suddenly stifling air of the room."
"Yet she was strong willed, vibrant, and far more willful and alluring than any woman he had ever known."
"Curiosity lit her features. 'How many siblings do you have?'"
"If he gave her some of his blood she would heal quicker, but he knew that she would not take it, and though he was drawn to her more than anyone else he had ever met, he wasn’t ready to create the bond between them that sharing his blood would produce."
"Braith, my name is Braith. You never say it. I want you to use it."
"Her mouth quirked in a small smile, her eyes lit with amusement."
"Braith’s hands seized her. 'Stop it!' he snarled, pulling her toward him. 'You’re hurting yourself Arianna.'"
"I have never had a blood slave because I prefer to take my blood from the willing. Many of my kind enjoy the force and the control, I do not. I never have."
"I brought you here because for the first time in almost a hundred years I was able to see something, and that something was you Aria."
"'Beautiful,' she said softly. She saw the brief shock that rolled through him, but she didn’t care. They were beautiful, and she couldn’t stop touching them, couldn’t stop touching him."
"'All he wanted was to save me, for Daniel.' 'Daniel?' Aria nodded, managing a tremulous smile. 'My brother.'"
"I have always been one hundred percent pragmatic. Like I said I have seen a lot in my short life, very little of it has been good."
"All I could think of was freedom. Freedom, Braith, I loved my freedom, I reveled in it."
"Something inside of her seemed to be healing, mending, becoming whole."
"I didn’t mean to hurt you; I just wanted to see my friend, to know that he was safe, and that he wasn’t dead."
"I didn’t mean to do what I did today. It’s just that when I saw Max he reminded me so much of home."
"She may not be the most beautiful woman, but she was by far the most stunning and appealing."
"I know you want your freedom Arianna, and I understand that, but I can’t give it to you."
"Neither do I, but you must keep this to yourself Arianna. No one else can know about my eyesight."
"They see my blindness as a weakness, and there are many people that want to keep me weak."
"You should have told me, I would have gone slower, I would have…"
"I am saying that you will not be leaving this room until we figure something out, but it will not involve you taking her, and it will not involve you telling them who she is."
"I couldn’t give them my real name, now could I? They may not know much about the royal family, but I wasn’t going to chance one of them possibly recognizing my name. And Jack is just less pretentious, don’t you think?"
"So you would know that you could trust me, that I was telling the truth."
"It was my mother’s, he would never give it to anyone he didn’t trust."
"There are many things you don’t know about me Braith, many things you have never known."
"Because he loves you, because you are his child. Because he would rather give his own life than think of you as a blood slave."
"I didn’t want this; I didn’t want any of this."
"Yes Arianna, to me, you’re the most beautiful woman in the world."
"You’re lucky I’m wearing this stupid dress and couldn’t get my foot any higher!"
"No, he can’t do that! There are thousands of other lives that depend on him, that count on him, that need him."
"You cannot stay here Aria, I can’t let that happen."
"A skinny wisp of a girl had managed to do in one month what his father had failed to do in over nine hundred years. And that was to turn him into a coldhearted, bloodthirsty monster."