Nicki Pau Preto Books & Quotes

Source: Heart of Flames

“She squeezed her eyes shut and stopped resisting. She fell into his arms, where he held her gently for a heartbeat then sighed. She thought of Val again. For all her dragging and pulling and demanding, all their ways their bodies had come into contact—and conflict—with each other over the years, Val had never given herself to Veronyka like this. Never offered herself at all. With Val, everything was take, take, take.”

Sisters Queen Avalkyra Ashfire Queendom

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Of course, old habits were like phoenixes—rising again and again—and the next thing she knew, they were locked together like snarling beasts. Avalkyra was fighting for something beyond measure—their future—and Veronyka was fighting because she was angry and afraid and knew that if Avalkyra wanted the box, it was worth fighting for.”

Fighting Sisters Habits Avalkyra Ashfire Phoenixes

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“If Pyra had to burn for Veronyka to be by Avalkyra’s side, so be it.”

Sisters Queen Avalkyra Ashfire Mad Queen

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Sev couldn’t tell the truth—but as any good liar will tell you, it’s best to stick as close to the truth as possible.”

Lies Spy Liar Sev Shadowheart

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“She didn’t want to be a queen. She didn’t want a war. She wanted peace. She wanted to protect others like her, to make the world safe for animages again. Veronyka wanted to fly in a flock, to be part of the Phoenix Rider resurgence, to stand among her fellows with pride and confidence, not above them.”

Destiny Fate Duty Queen Ashfire Phoenix Rider Ashfire Queen

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“If I am to become naught but ruin, may it be so that you can build anew upon the ashes.”

Love Loss Mothers Mothers And Daughters Daughters

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“These are the costs of war: a thousand shattering moments of pain and loss and a lifetime of regret.”

Love War Loss

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“I think it comes as no surprise, Miss Lucas, that your time at Strictland must come to an end," the headmaster said. "According to Miss Thornbury's account, you terrorized your fellow classmates before setting the entire gymnasium on fire . . ." "It was only the banners," Vin mumbled. Not because she had held back at all; they just happened to be the most flammable.”

Humour Rebellion Oh My Goodness I Love Them Thinking Outside The Box

Book:The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

Source: The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents

“We go in," Wren said with more confidence than she felt. But that, she had learned, was the way confidence worked.”

Confidence

Book:Bonesmith

Source: Bonesmith

“Someday soon you’ll call me Queen.”

Queen Avalkyra Ashfire

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“A surge of anger blossomed in her stomach. She would fashion a new crown and take the feathers from this phoenix’s corpse if she wanted. She was Avalkyra Ashfire. She was a queen. None would shine brighter or burn hotter than her.”

Avalkyra Ashfire Feather Crowned Queen

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“What had she done all her life when the world refused to give her what she needed? What she deserved? She had taken it.”

Avalkyra Ashfire

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“The only name in the world that could inspire love, loyalty, and most of all, hatred, from the Feather-Crowned Queen herself. Pheronia Ashfire.”

Sister Avalkyra Ashfire Ashfire Sister Queens

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“No matter the cost, she couldn’t give up now, not when the possibilities unfurled before her. If she could make this work, she would be the first Phoenix Rider in history without a bond. If anyone could do it, Avalkyra Ashfire could.”

Phoenix Avalkyra Ashfire Shadow Magic Shadowmage

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Veronyka didn’t know the man who owned it would never return, thanks to a quiet knife in the dark delivered by Avalkyra’s steady hand.”

Avalkyra Ashfire Book 1 Reveal Crown Of Feathers Reveal

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“A sense of tightness, of long-awaited justice, expanded in Avalkyra’s chest. This is how it was meant to be: Avalkyra standing proud, a queen once more, and her loyal subjects bowing before her.”

Queen Avalkyra Ashfire Feather Crowned Queen

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Something powerful happened, however, when a shadowmage was invited in. Knowledge of shadow magic made a mind more susceptible to influence, and if that person chose to welcome that magic inside . . . well, it made putting a bind much easier. Avalkyra had put binds on her entire patrol, and she would do it again, one by one.”

Avalkyra Ashfire Shadow Magic Shadowmage Sidra Sidra Of Stel

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Yes, she wanted answers, and Val promised them—at a price, of course. With Val there was always a price.”

Price Avalkyra Ashfire

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Val was still her family—and would have been regardless of what that birth certificate said—but now Veronyka was an Ashfire. A royal line. Descended from queens.”

Avalkyra Ashfire Ashfire Sister Queens Ashfire Queens

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Either the commander was keeping Sev in the dark, or there was more than one band of Phoenix Riders in existence, and those riders might just be fighting for the wrong side.”

Spy Phoenix Sev Shadowheart Phoenix Riders

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“It had been the best decision of his life, and his footsteps lightened after that.”

Sev

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Slowly, as if it weighed a hundred pounds, the bondservant lifted his chin. Molten amber eyes, sharply carved jawline, and the unmistakable scowl of Kade.”

Ship Kade Sev Kev

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“If the gods brought them together only to rip them apart, Sev didn’t think he could bear it.”

Kade Sev Kev

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“Sev took a step closer to Kade. How could he not see that Sev wanted nothing to do with the servant and everything to do with him?”

Ship Kade Sev Kev

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“This was why Veronyka had wanted to be a Phoenix rider in the first place: to protect, to save, to champion the weak and powerless.”

Phoenix Phoenix Rider

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

“You thought standing in his shadow was cold while he was alive, but standing in the shadow of his martyrdom is colder, isn't it?”

Mic Drop Cold Af

Book:Bonesmith

Source: Bonesmith

“How many times could a person hurt you and your love for them endure? Then again, surely only love could make words like hers cut so deeply? Love didn't stop people from hurting each other-- love made it easier.”

Love Hurt Loss Family

Book:Heart of Flames

Source: Heart of Flames

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