Lady Of Darkness Quotes
"You are sure he will be here tonight?" a cool female voice asked, bored from where its bearer perched on a low garden wall.
"Enough. Both of you." An icy third female voice cut through the bickering.
"Three women who knew how to use their bodies as weapons— in all the ways a woman could use her body."
"Then why did you ask me the same godsdamned question?"
"You didn’t know who you were killing? That seems highly unlikely," Death’s Maiden said with a laugh tinged with madness.
"Are you really going to just sit in here and read all day?"
"I am not some precious jewel to be kept in the coffers, only to be displayed at galas and ceremonies."
"You can tell the Assassin Lord he can take his assignment and shove it up his—"
"You do know I do not give a damn about such things, do you not?"
"I find the need to be so well-versed because I have found most men to be so incredibly inadequate."
"You wouldn’t have to wear such things at the Fellowship," Nuri said with a smirk. "Just saying."
"Tell Prince Callan I said hello," Scarlett crooned after him, her eyes narrowing as she met his dark eyes. "Of course, then you’d have to explain how you know me."
"You win, Lady. I shall send word for when we are to train."
"Yes, Cassius, and when it’s all said and done, I’m going to disappear."
"I’m sorry, Miss, but Captain Renwell delivered it himself and demanded I deliver it immediately."
"You’re right. It is most inappropriate to demand a message be delivered at such an abysmal hour in the morning, but here we are, so I thought I’d return the damn favor."
"I have received your message, Captain Renwell. I also must insist we meet at eight in the evening rather than nine."
"I suppose it is not a common thing for a woman of nobility, but I am not nobility. I believe you’d be surprised at the number of women who do need to know weaponry, especially those not privileged enough to live in this District."
"I’m not some stupid spoiled Lady. You are clearly highly respected and highly skilled. It has been a long while since I have had someone…of quality skill to train with me. I would not be stupid enough to piss you off and ruin my chances to train. Not during the first lesson anyway."
"Because where I’m from, females fight alongside males on the battlefields. Because those men in your king’s armies are not more skilled than you are. You could likely best many of them outside of the elite group that I train. Because you deserve the choice of something else if that’s what you desire."
"I miss you. Complete this job and come home. Where you belong."
"I swear we’ve met before. I feel like I recognize you in some weird way…"
"It’s an escape. It gives me someplace to go when I have to stay where I am."
"Maybe that how it’s supposed to be, but in the end I’ve found being alone isn’t really all that bad. Not when there are moments like this in between the being alone."
"I know you’ll be just fine alone, Scarlett Monrhoe. You are strong and wicked and brilliant."
"But maybe, just maybe, alone isn’t where you’re supposed to be either."
"Book or tea with a bunch of girls gossiping about the latest goings on in court? I’ll go with the book, thank you."
"I’m just— I’m sorry. I’m tired from training with Ryker, and then my dreams… I’ve hardly been sleeping."
"Maybe they don’t mean anything. Maybe they’re just dreams, Scarlett."
"I don’t need to take another tonic. I need to figure out what these dreams mean."
"You’re crankier than usual when you don’t sleep well."
"At least I have an excuse. You're just an ass all the time."
"Because they would have to get through wards the Fae have set up around their lands. Traps to capture humans to make us slaves, not welcome us into their territories."
"You wanted a truth, did you not? There it is."
"I cannot help her through this if she will not wake up."
"Scarlett, I’m here," he murmured into her ear. "Open your eyes."
"To hear someone call him by his real name was such a fucking respite."
"I am Fae," Sorin answered, not even hesitating.
"You scared the shit out of me," Cassius said, his voice low.
"Promise me you'll tell him, Cassius. Those exact words."
"I don’t care," was all she could mange before sleep enveloped her wholly.
"Sorin sat on the roof of his luxury apartment building in the Elite District of Baylorin."
"Every time he spent time with her, he found her more and more intriguing."
"The power he had pulled from her tonight was stronger than most."
"We're the most feared executioners in the kingdoms, and you are…who you are."
"Maybe someday we’ll actually just disappear into the shadows and not return."
"She bathed, soaking in the warmth of the water."
"If Sorin wouldn’t give her answers, she’d find them herself."
"Her entire body had sighed in relief, as if he were indeed an anchor."
"I'm just relaying the message. I told her you would come to her as soon as you could."
"I suppose we should indeed go shopping," she said, getting to her feet. "I’m going to need a new dress."
"She slept for two days straight until that dream tugged her awake."
"They were six. They’re getting younger and younger again,"
"We let our guard down. We got lax. We mustn’t make that mistake again."
"They have their own work to be doing. They can’t be watching children all day."
"A little over two years ago, orphans from the streets of the Black Syndicate had started going missing."
"Not until Cassius found them one night and said he had overheard a group of castle guards discussing the ‘urchins in the dungeons.’"
"Fuck, Scarlett. You know that’s not an option."
"You do not get to pin this on me, Nuri. This is not my responsibility."
"We’ve lost too many. Losing Juliette that night… We never should have let them scare us off."
"Death’s Shadow and Death’s Maiden. Two sparks to set their world on fire."
"If you honestly think I’m going to join you on Scarlett’s shit list, you are sorely mistaken,"
"We may have become something like friends as of late, but my loyalty lies with the one who said not to tell you a damn thing about her wellbeing."
"Me? Gods, no. Nothing, however? She’ll go for the balls."
"I find people to be a bit more…relaxed around me when they do not know the full extent of my abilities."
"I am not Death Incarnate, and she is not your worry tonight. Death’s Shadow is who you must beware of."
"That is not my home, and neither is here. This will never be my home again."
"I will question you until you agree to go after Mikale."
"You can’t let her go to the castle. She can’t possibly get in there unnoticed,"
"I look for you, you know. I look for you every time the court gathers."
"Every night I come to my rooms. Alone. Just in case you’ll slip from the shadows."
"Did you know I even make my driver go by the Tyndell Manor on the occasions I go into the city just on the off chance I might see you out and about?"
"Nearly every day I’ve thought about what I’d say to you. I’ve thought about what I could have possibly done to make you disappear so abruptly from my world with just a note on my pillow to say goodbye."
"Please, Scarlett. No one is coming in here tonight. There will be no more interruptions."
"I forgot how, even with everything I want to yell at you and demand from you, how even with all of that running through my mind, I’d let you kill me, just to run my fingers through your hair one more time."
"Yes, I’ve missed that most of all, but this? This is a damn close second."
"Two more minutes of pretending the last year never happened."
"Tell me what happened a year ago, Scarlett. Tell me, and I will take care of it."
"You must spend the rest of tonight here, right beside me, and when you leave in the morning, don’t slip out in the shadows. Say good-bye like a proper person."
"You will have to come to me, until we…take care of some things. I cannot risk being at the castle again anytime soon."
"I told you tonight would change nothing. I told you this is not what I came for."
"Because I don’t know what you are yet, and she will hunt you. The less you know, the easier it is for me to keep you safe from her."
"All her thoughts, all of her questions, flew from her mind as she relaxed into his hold, letting the feeling of his lips against hers encompass her wholly, letting him take control."
"Sorin sat alone in his small office near the soldiers’ barracks at the castle."
"I believe the High Force is ready to face any human and Fae threats our kingdom may encounter."
"You are exceptional at your job, and you manage your unit well. As long as that continues, I don’t give a shit if you hate the Fae bastards or love them."
"I see the way you look at her, General, and her you."
"I've had my share of delight from the daughters of night. You wouldn’t be able to keep up."
"Parties at the Pier surpass any and all other parties. They are wilder and more freeing."
"You do realize the only reason I’m even out here with you is because of the wine, don’t you?"
"Fae believe in the Fates and the gods and believe that there is one soul that they are destined to be with, have been joined with since the beginning of time."
"Being queen is just another cage. I would step from one into another."
"I would rather be alone than be bound to a throne, so no, I do not think it could ever work, but that does not make walking away from him any easier."
"I don’t know. I think it was healed in the dream."
"Maybe you did need a keeper tonight after all."
"If she’s truly Fae, she needs to sleep this off outside the manor. She’s not safe there."
"I’ve never seen anything like that," Sorin replied, ignoring the verbal jab. "She kept screaming for it to stop. She kept crying out for you."
"I’m trying," Sorin replied through gritted teeth. He could feel his temper slipping.
"You’re still my favorite," she said, stroking his cheek with her thumb. "Always."
"I have never hated someone more than I do right now," Nuri said from between clinched teeth, her nostrils flaring.