The Becoming Quotes
"I wasn’t going to let you go without me into some hole of light in our damn living room. And you were all upset. You’d been crying."
"This is as important to me as your sword is to you."
"You are shitting me. You can travel the multiverse, light candles across the room, grow wings, but you don’t have Wi-Fi?"
"She loves me, in a way I barely remembered my father loving me."
"It’s fear of me for her, too. Fear of what I am, what I have."
"I know the feeling. Drink a little more."
"You’re not just sitting there in the dirt you washed off."
"We’re going to be fine. We’re going to get each other right on through this."
"She missed you through the summer, but more, she felt the weight of not telling you, her dear friend, all of this."
"Do I understand Jennifer’s drive to lock Breen away? I do."
"It’s not the wings so much. It’s the beak, and the eyes. The eyes that look right at you and I hear him thinking: I bet your tongue tastes real good."
I wouldn’t mind a late supper," Harken called out. "Dusk would give you time enough to cook it.
"You’ll test those skills by saddling Blue."
If it’s not too much trouble," Keegan said dryly, "I’ve not all the time in the worlds to stand about while the lot of you admire Breen’s crafting skills.
"A hard taskmaster is Keegan. Well then, Marco, show off your skills and let’s see you saddle up my big Blue."
"You did well enough for the first time back at it."
"Such effusive praise will give me a big head."
"When you’ve gathered your own supplies, you might make more of the sort—for different purposes. For gifts and bartering."
"But he leaped aside, struck out with his blade. As the bear screamed in pain and rage, began the next charge, Keegan opened the ground under him."
"It harms no living thing—I bespelled it like the swords. You’ll get wet, but you won’t burn."
"Come back altogether full of yourself, haven’t you?"
"It’s my athame—it’s for rituals. I left it with Nan when I went back to Philadelphia."
"This is getting me hot. Is it like foreplay with them?"
"You already are. Odran doesn’t know that. You must."
"I don’t know what that means, except he’s coming."
"Sure she’s fine. Just not used to the seeing as yet. But she saw well enough, as did I."
"You’ve given us a weapon, and we’ll use it."
"If we’re riding, I’d like to go to the mines. I need to increase my crystal supply without always taking from Nan."
"Not to worry, we’ll see she knows. And she’s nothing to fear tonight, nor do you."
"I’m going to google that, get more juice on it."
"I’m okay. I’ve got it. You’re right. He’s right. Knowing’s a weapon."
"Not much point if you don’t grab that good stuff."
"And why wouldn’t we? Your training doesn’t stop, and you need what they mine, don’t you?"
"Girl, I thought you’d gone upstairs! You’ve got to get your ass up there, get that shower. We’re going to discuss wardrobe after I get this cake in the oven and get my own shower."
"God, that’s good. Musical bakery or diner, Marco Polo. That’s the answer."
"You want the cool boots—the black ones with the stubby heels and the fake laces up the front."
"It was deep blue, like it had been dipped into the sea under moonlight. Simple, she thought, with its long sleeves and scooped neck. And of velvet, soft to the touch."
"Breen Siobhan, I thought you might enjoy wearing this tonight. If it doesn’t suit, no worries. Nan."
"Put those boots on so we can get a load of our smoking selves."
"Now, that looks like a party. Sounds like a party."
"Holy crap! How’d you do that? How’d you do that just touching it?"
"You’re the eighth, ninth, and tenth wonder of the world."
"We’ll do one from our world. Let’s do ‘Shallow.’"
"He’s a good man, is Brian, so you’ve no worries about Marco."
"I’ve rested enough, and since this one wants to dance, I’ll oblige."
"Your feet are walking. The rest of you’s floating."
"I’m rocking it," he agreed, and posed in her mirror.
"I think I’m lovesick. Kills the appetite."
"We’ll go over early. We’re going to take that ride—our first ride together—to Dad’s grave."
"It’s only for a second, and I’ll fix it. I’m sorry."
"There’s always somebody who just has to screw up the good stuff, and find other somebodies to help them do it."
"We walk a lot in the neighborhood where I’m from."
"You’re my heart, my hope, my abiding love. You are everything to me, then, now, always. Be strong, Breen Siobhan, and face what comes, what I failed to spare you from facing."
"It’s more than the lust haze. It’s more."
"We send to the gods the brave and the true. Even as we’re lessened by their loss, we are strengthened by their valor."
"From the earth, on the water, by the fire, through the air. Into the light, into the arms of the gods, go the brave and true."
"And still we’ll fight on, heal our wounds, honor our dead. And fight on again. For Talamh, and all the worlds."
"You have the gift for living things, as I do."
"But I saw you, and the others. What you were fighting and why."
"He said on Samhain, we will wake her after she is bound to the stake on the pyre. And then her screams will rise as she burns."
"You don’t baby a warrior, and he proved himself one only last night I’m told."
"The gods know I've seen my share of battles, but none quite like this."
"I won't forget the light in their eyes, the strength in their hearts."
"I am child of the Fey. I am of the Wise, of the Sidhe, of man, and of the gods."
"I see your death, your blood on the stones, your eyes staring without life in the dark."
"Your belly holds the anger, your heart the compassion. Your mind the will."
"I think he will not. I think he will see what you are, cowards and weaklings."
"She’s no threat to me. And as all there saw clearly, by the gods, Breen Siobhan O’Ceallaigh can hold her own and more."
"Your gift, your power comes from your heart and your belly as much as your mind."
"It’s duty, yours as well as mine, though I wish it all to the devil myself."
"The love potion, I can see her holding that as a kind of last resort. But the rest—what she did to Kiara, what she tried to do tonight? That came from rage, impulse, fury, not planning."
"Shiny things like these gorgeous rooms don’t balance that scale."
"The Capital's beautiful and exciting, the views are stunning. The people are lovely. But there are so many of them."
"Well then, you could've kept your mouth shut all those years ago, and not floated around in the lake with your hair all swirling like fire in the water, and telling me the sword was meant for me."
"I missed you when I was away, and when I came back. I missed you."
"She treated us who give our work to the castle like servants, and we’re not."
"It was painted long ago, and reminds the taoiseach that when he sleeps, Talamh should be his last thought, when he wakes, his first."
"And in the sky blue as the seas, dragons flew."
"I want them to pay. I want to make them pay."
"No more than a few days old, that one. Fresh from the nesting cave."
"Dreams aren’t always literal, are they?"
"Love burst into her, a flood, a force, a gift."
"I feel his heart inside mine. I feel it like my own."
"We will see. You shared a bed with the taoiseach until he tired of you."
"I prefer wine, but what is rule without power, what is power without force?"
"I’ve known of Lonrach all my life. The dragon who waits for the child of the Fey to come home."
"But I fear, as I didn’t, as I shouldn’t, harm coming to you."
"You don’t get many of them, the quiet moments."
"My blood is on your hands. Remember this, pathetic child of the Fey. You killed me."
"And the power swirling around him, through him, spoke of death."
"Your blood is my blood. Your power is my power. Now come, and let me drink."
"That wasn’t now. If it hasn’t happened, there’s time to stop it."
"No weapon but herself, really, so she’d have to be enough."
"I don’t have time. I have to go or they’ll die."
"Go back to hell, and tell Odran I’ll send him after you."
"Misneach. Courage. That’s not just a wish anymore."
"I fought for Talamh today, and for you, for myself, my father."
"I’m not sorry, but I feel a little sick inside."
"I think Yseult would say you’ve learned that well already."