No Rest For The Wicked Quotes
"Every soldier came back changed by the horrors of war—he himself had—but Sebastian’s brothers were altered."
"How could I expect to defend a country, when I could not protect my own flesh and blood?"
"The last time she’d stayed her hand had resulted in a tragedy so great her heart had been broken forever by it."
"I do not require help from others. Especially not for a single vampire."
"I thought he and all of his pack mates were of age!"
"I’ve never felt anything so damned good as your body."
"If only he understood more about this world he now inhabited, the Lore. He was as ignorant of it as he was of modern human culture."
"Never before had he felt such lust. No woman had ever stirred him to anything like this."
"He had half a dozen chests filled with gold coins, stamped with the imprint of some ancient god in flight."
"He would never be able to share days outside with her. God, how he already missed the sun—now more than ever because he couldn’t walk in it with her."
"How could Sebastian persuade her to live with him, when for three centuries he hadn’t been able to persuade himself that he deserved to live at all?"
"The idea that a vampire didn’t need to know how to get to a destination, only to envision it, didn’t make sense to Sebastian."
"His family had known he’d been courted by chivalric and church orders, as well as other secret sects of arcane knowledge, seeking to recruit him."
"And Sebastian needed to believe that tracing to her was possible. The alternative was to wait out the villagers, which was untenable."
"He was a thinker who liked to solve problems, and his father had instilled in him the belief that the mind was capable of unimaginable feats if one were strong enough to believe them possible."
"Her sword didn’t whistle, because air rarely perceived it in time."
"Some say she warns once, but I’d rather not bet on it."
"You never quite believe what they can bring to a fight. Until it’s quite too late."
"In the past, sharpening her sword had been a kind of ritual to focus her thoughts."
"If the vampire’s presence acted as Kryptonite for her blessing, then she just needed to lose him."
"Her history was shady. She worked to make it so."
"For some reason, Kaderin has lost a lot of her humanity."
"As if living by animal instinct were a bad thing."
"Each item is assigned a point value based on the difficulty in reaching it."
"Maiming, debilitating, and mystical or physical imprisonment are, of course, all acceptable."
"Do not commit any act that will draw human attention to the Lore."
"The first two competitors to reach eighty-seven points go to the finals. The reason for this number is that there’s no reason."
"What is amazing is that all of you actually can boast hearts of some fashion, cold though they may be."
"This Hie, you will compete for Thrane’s Key."
"The wizard Thrane dabbled with time travel, and his key unlocks a door through time, enabling its possessor to go into the past."
"She could bring them back. All she had to do was win this competition."
"Her gaze flickered down over them, and she saw not living beings but obstacles to be removed."
"She studied her reflection in her sword. If the vampire got in her way, she’d slice her blade through his neck."
"I didn't think you'd start this early, lightning whore! It's on!"
"You can't kill a competitor," Sebastian said to Regin with infuriating calm.
"A vampire just called you a nickname! A sexy nickname."
"No one in the coven gets it. They only want me to live in the moment."
"Only a coward would try to escape her fate. Remember that, Kaderin."
"You can't feel, child. How will you help me?"
"You've made me feel," she'd hissed at him that first morning.
"Brave girl," he murmured against her hair. "You are safe."
"Well, well," a rumbling voice said from behind her. "I’ll wager you are happy to see me right now."
"Why not let me trace you back across the Atlantic?"
"Were her sisters that averse to her presence at weddings? Am I that dismal?"
"As in all wars, the Valkyrie had had a correspondent in the field."
"I’m betting you’ve never been where I’m going."
"Still, Kaderin sighed, unable to help feeling very old and very alone."
"What in the hell was he even doing competing and why was he so determined to win?"
"That pleases me. You should be, since I’m hard for you constantly."
"No matter what happens in the future, I want you to know that I’m... glad you’re here now."
"These feelings are confusing, are they not? Mine are, too. But we’ll muddle our way through."
"You’re talking crazy. You shouldn’t be alone right now, not with this news."
"In the competition, before the next full moon... you’re going to... die."
"He understood her cruelty, but that didn't mean it was easily witnessed."
"Ever since he'd awakened, Sebastian had been filled with a marked disgust he couldn't shake."
"Lights like lasers shot to the rounded ceiling in bizarre rapid patterns."
"Appears that the retro-hooker look wasn't making the cut tonight, Cin."
"You're denying us for no reason... you want me, too."
"We're past that. I'm not a gentleman anymore. I'm not even a human. And you're no lady."
"For you to have gone to another man... and let him touch you..."
"If you love something, you protect it ruthlessly. No matter what occurs."
"I didn’t just trust you with my life... I trusted you with my sisters’ lives as well."
"For my part, if I could know for a day that I’d won you, it would be worth it."
"I don’t understand how this is possible," Kaderin said. "He changed the past. The present should be different."
"You can’t go back and then change the future."
"You unquestionably cannot go back in time to change the future. That way lies madness."
"Time is living and fluid but refuses to allow the past to be."
"When you use the key, do not attempt to get clever with it."
"Your pull on her was stronger than a blessing bestowed by a goddess."
"You, and you alone, have freed her to feel. And it is time she should."
"At every turn, he made her feel protected, cherished. And she would respond in kind."
"I’ll never tire of hearing that. Maybe one day you’ll come to love me as much as I do you."