Slaying The Vampire Conqueror Quotes
"As far as visions went, it was actually a surprisingly useful one. But useful didn’t help me here."
"I couldn’t claim that I saw nothing. That was clearly untrue, and it would mean Atrius would probably kill me."
"The full moon," I said. "Move for Alka under the full moon."
"I had to appreciate his thoroughness. At least he respected the art of seering more than I expected him to."
"Nyaxia, I realized now. It had to be Nyaxia."
"Atrius did not raise his voice. But that was only because he was not the type of man who needed to."
"I’m sorry. A woman alone in this world sometimes needs to perform to make men take her seriously."
"I don’t believe that." He jabbed his pen at me. "That little chin wobbling thing. Enough of the theatrics."
"You think your death is a satisfaction?" he sneered."
"I’ve killed demigods," he snarled. "Your death means nothing to me."
"You’re the witch," he said. "Don’t your kind have their ways?"
"I sense that you’re suffering," I said. "I may not have been the best healer in the Arachessen, but I studied it."
"Never mind. This is none of your concern. I’ll be fine on my own."
"The choice is between trying to help you and suffering through your sulking for the foreseeable future, then for the sake of everyone who has to be around you, just let me try to help."
"Do you feel that? It’s something more than that."
"Weaver, what kind of a question was that? I didn’t even know how to answer it."
"I’ll try, and beneath my palm I felt Atrius let out a long, slow exhale of relief."
"It’s going to be bloody. Lots of blood will be spilled."
"We lose the past so fast. We should cling to those who made us who we are."
"Because we lose the past so fast. We should cling to those who made us who we are."
"He was alive, and broken, and familiar, and mysterious, and dangerous, and safe."
"Every time we came together again it was fiercer, like waves crashing in a storm."
"I couldn’t pretend anymore this kiss was his alone."
"I wasn’t one to let myself drown in silly, baseless hopes."
"He wanted me. I knew it now, by the rigid length of him pressing through his pants."
"That was enough to make me snap back to awareness."
"I slipped my hand from his shirt and extracted myself from his lap as gracefully as I could manage."
"I’m not the one killing myself over some Weaver-damned Pythoraseed."
"You have had a more difficult thread to walk than your Sisters."
"I felt Atrius’s presence behind me before I saw him."
"My people have learned to fight for the impossible."
"It was stupid of you to put yourself, bleeding, next to a bunch of injured vampires."
"Isn’t it a small thing to give up, to earn the love of a goddess? To earn the love of a family?"
"I had only one bloodless path forward, and that was to try one last time to convince the Sightmother that Atrius could be a worthy ally."
"This place doesn’t deserve their bones. This place doesn’t deserve the bones of their children."
"The problem was that no one was ever moving fast, because it was impossible to tell where you were going."
"Death is what happens when you stand still," I said. "Don’t stand still. Not for anything."
"I love you. I’m sorry for the ways I failed you. I forgive you for the ways you failed me."
"We don’t have time to chip away at this," I said. "If he was as easy as Tarkan—"
"We’re less than a few miles from the end of the pass," I said.
"You are going to meet a goddess today, Sylina," she said. "This is a gift most never get."
"Think of a version of yourself who was not forged in those flames."
"It’s a tricky business to get the attention of a god."
"I can already sense it. The path to the gods."
"I told you, child, that we would need your fire for what’s ahead."
"It's good to see you all together again. I've missed you."
"It's about time his past caught up with him."
"My heart was a lead weight in my chest these days."