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“...she was a smart girl. She knew how to survive. But all living creatures desire. Is that weakness?”

Desire Smart Weakness Survive Living Creatures Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You don't even know, Oraya.' The corner of his mouth, where a little smudge of blood remained, curled as he shook his head. 'The things I've thought about. "Want" doesn't even fucking cover it. I have a list.”

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Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You are the most stunning thing I've ever seen, Oraya.”

Desire Honesty Stunning Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I would beg,' he murmured. 'For you, I would. You have fucking destroyed me, Oraya. Do you know that?”

Desire Destroyed Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Beg Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“No logic doesn't matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear- and my people were terrified.”

Fear Emotion Hatred Logic Terrified Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Six Scorched Roses

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I didn't want you to see me that way,' he went on. 'So I pretended that version of myself didn't exist. It does. And I'm- I don't like people to see it. I didn't want you to see it.”

Honesty Ashamed Vampires Embarrassed Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Vale held me tight to his chest, cradled in his arms, forehead to mind. There were tears in his eyes and blood on his lips. 'I want to stay,' I choked out. 'I know,' he whispered, as his mouth lowered to mind, and I faded away there in his arms, surrounded by withering roses.”

Love Dying Vampires Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Wanting To Stay

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I love you. I loved you from the first moment.' Bubbles of blood formed at the corners of his mouth. His gaze drifted past me, to the night sky. Then it dragged back to me- the movement slow, laborious, like he was working very hard to make sure I was the last thing he saw. 'So many mistakes in the end,' he choked out. 'Never you.”

Dying I Love You Deathbed Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Vale's eyes said, Stay, and for the first time in my life, I wanted to . I wanted to stay so badly I would die for it.”

Dying Stay Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Wanting To Stay

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“You've spent your whole damned life dying, Lilith. Now you've gotten that out of the way, and you get to live.”

Dying Live Vampires Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Six Scorched Roses Mina Time To Live

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“Breathe, Oraya. Come back to me. Please.' He said this like he cared. Like he fucking cared. I hated him.”

Dying Breathe Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Come Back To Me Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You want more than I can give you,' I whispered. 'I can't imagine that ever being true,' he murmured. 'Because I want only you, Lilith. Whatever of you I can have. I'll take one night. One hour. One minute. Whatever you want to give me. I'll have it.”

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Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“Whatever you wish to give me,' he repeated, slowly, like he wanted to make sure I understood. 'I'll have it.”

Love Romantic Wanting Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Declaration Of Love Lilith Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“... And the difference between nothing mattering and one thing mattering is a big one.”

Purpose Despair Depression Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Raihn Ashraj Raihn Mattering

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The line between anger and sadness is so thin. I had learned that fear can become rage, but rage can so easily shatter into devastation. The fractures spiderwebbed across my heart.”

Sadness Anger Rage Devastation Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Sadness was a futile, weak emotion. At least anger was useful- a sharp edge to cut another's heart, or a hard shell to protect your own.”

Sadness Anger Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Useful Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Futile

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I will give you my victory, or I will give you my death.”

Death Victory Vow Give Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Vows Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“The love I felt now, for Raihn, was... terrifying in its ease. I was afraid that something would come to rip it away from me. I was afraid that I would destroy it myself, by not knowing how to feel something so right.”

Love Fear

Book:The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Fear is a collection of physical responses, I told myself. Fear is accelerated heartbeats and rapid breaths and sweaty palms. Fear is a doorway to anger, and anger is a doorway to power.”

Fear Power Logic Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Physical Responses Rapid Breaths

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“And then I realised. I realised that fear, when embraced, hardens and sharpens. That it becomes rage. That it becomes power. I would not die here.”

Fear Power Rage Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Sharpens Hardens

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Fear is the fucking KEY to it, Oraya! Raihn's voice, booming with fear of his own, filled both of our minds. USE IT. Pretend that you're throwing me out the fucking window. Pretend that you're dragging Mische out of that burning apartment.”

Fear Advice Desperation Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I didn't like feeling things. Emotions were ever-shifting and devoid of logic, and they gave me no way to sink my blade into them.”

Feelings Emotions Logic Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“How did I get here, standing at the foot of my father's legacy, fighting to rule the kingdom he said I couldn't even exist in?”

Fate Legacy

Book:The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Don't be so quick to throw away your humanity, Oraya,' he said. 'You might find you miss it once it's gone.”

Humanity Miss Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“I'd already met death three times now. So far the fourth was a big disappointment.”

Death Disappointment Fearless Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Six Scorched Roses

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I had never been able to give any of them enough enough time, enough love. Everyone gave up so much trying to get more from me, and now I did the same for them. From the moment I was old enough to understand my eventual fate, I made every decision knowing this. Knowing that I couldn't be enough. Knowing that I would wither too fast, like a flower in an early frost.”

Love Beautiful True Heart Wrenching

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“Enough?' Vitarus said, incredulous. 'Enough? What is it to suffer enough? The mouse suffers at the fangs of a snake. The snake suffers a the claws of a badger. The badger suffers at the teeth of a wolf. The wolf suffers at the spear of a hunter. There is no such thing as enough suffering.”

Enough God Suffering Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Six Scorched Roses Not Enough Vitarus

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I wondered what that was like. To live a life so untouched by such ugliness that the very concept of it was startling."-Tisaanah”

Life Pain Trauma

Book:Daughter of No Worlds

Source: Daughter of No Worlds

“We understand loss. And we know that it is the worst kind of powerlessness"- Atrius”

Pain Loss Loss Of Innocence

Book:Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

Source: Slaying the Vampire Conqueror

“I spent a lot of time alone, before. I didn't realise how important it was to really have someone. To have someone who would just- who would kill for you. You know?”

Loneliness Alone Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Needing Someone Mische Having Someone Kill For You

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You are more than your value to powerful men, Tisaanah, and those people will use you and throw you away." - Maxantarius Farlione”

Men Truth Control

Book:Daughter of No Worlds

Source: Daughter of No Worlds

“Look at what your cruelty created.”

Growth Power Creation Overcoming Cruelty

Book:Daughter of No Worlds

Source: Daughter of No Worlds

“It must be hard,' he murmured. 'To bear the weight of so much affection in a life so short.”

Affection Murmuring Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Bearing The Weight Must Be Hard

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“The fine details in his face struck me like a knife to the chest - all the things I didn't realize I'd forgotten, like the slight crookedness to his nose or the way he favored the left side over the right. The version of him in my mind was generic, sanded down me months of absence, even as my grief clung to him.”

Memories Loss Grief

Book:The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“VIncent believed that you always had a choice, and if you found yourself in a position where you didn't, you'd made a very poor one earlier that put you there. EIther way, you had no one to blame but yourself.”

Choices Choice Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Poor Choices Vincent Vampire King

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“You're safe,' he whispered against my skin. And then he bit.”

Safe Vampires Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn Bit

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“That us the bravest act in this world. To feel.”

Life Inspirational Feelings Emotions Bravery Help Caduan

Book:Mother of Death & Dawn

Source: Mother of Death & Dawn

“You cannot accomplish anything in this world without power,' he said. 'And power requires sacrifice, focus, and ruthlessness.”

Power Focus Sacrifice Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Ruthlessness Vincent Vampire King

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“This realization - the realization that my goal, and the things I chose to sacrifice in my pursuit of it, no longer belonged to me alone - crushed me so suddenly that I could feel myself swaying beneath this new responsibility.”

Sacrifice

Book:Daughter of No Worlds

Source: Daughter of No Worlds

“He smelled like the sky- he tasted like falling.”

Sky Falling Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Raihn Ashraj Raihn Tasted

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“They'd brought weapons and explosives and fire. And they'd brought the most dangerous things of all: desperation and rage.”

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Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I couldn't help marveling at how far we'd come. I still wasn't sure if it would be enough. But Goddess, it was something, wasn't it?”

Hope

Book:The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

Source: The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King

“Abundance wears many faces. The got of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without death, no feast without famine.”

Life Death Plenty Abundance Decay Famine Feast Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Six Scorched Roses

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“Never be ashamed of exceeding expectations,' he said. 'Even mine.”

Advice Expectations Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Vincent Exceeding Expectations Fatherly Advice Vampire King Never Be Ashamed

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“It's just... something being difficult is not a good reason not to do it.”

Difficulty Unreasonable Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Six Scorched Roses Bad Reasons Not A Good Reason

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“You can just call me Vale,' he grumbled. 'I suppose that once someone has seen my bare ass, we can drop the titles.”

Titles Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Grumbling Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Formalities Bare Ass

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“Why is is always me? Why is it never your name they're screaming through the sun-cursed door?' She smiled sweetly. 'Because I'm nice and pretty.' 'I'm nice and pretty,' he grumbled.”

Funny Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Groaning Grumbling Raihn Ashraj Raihn Mische Nice And Pretty

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“Does nothing bother you?' he said. 'You seem totally unmoved that you almost died.' I didn't tell him that I was almost always dying. 'I don't have time to waste on useless things,' I said. 'It was strange to see you in such a state when I found you. And when I brought you back. So... weak.' A wrinkle formed over his forehead, hinting at confusion. And that confusion, in turn, confused me. 'Weak?' 'You've seemed... In the time we've known each other, you've seemed infallible.”

Weak Infallible Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Surprised Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Unmoved

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“I always wondered what you were thinking,' he murmured. 'When you look at me like that.' 'Like what?' 'Like I'm a formula to be solved, and you're very intrigued about the answer.”

Intrigued Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Lilith Wondering Vale Six Scorched Roses Lord Vale Wondered Formula To Be Solved

Book:Six Scorched Roses

Source: Six Scorched Roses

“The others will underestimate you,' he went on. 'Use that. It's a powerful weapon.”

Underestimate Crowns Of Nyaxia Carissa Broadbent Element Of Surprise Oraya Oraya Of The Nightborn Vincent Vampire King Powerful Weapon

Book:The Serpent and the Wings of Night

Source: The Serpent and the Wings of Night

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