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81 " No clue. I have no idea how that man’s head works. I don’t think he knows how his head works, seeing as he’s got some seriously stripped gears up there. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Queen of Dreams (The Masks of Under #3)
82 " When she looked up to him, she expected to see anger in his eyes. But what there was instead was grief. Grief, and hope, and the knowledge that it would surely die. The expression of a man who knew tragedy was to come and that it was unavoidable. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Heart of Dracula (Immortal Soul, #1)
83 " You have thrown yourself into the maw of death, knowing I will spell your doom. But as you stand here, parlaying with the enemy…consider why. When you wake from this vision, find the true answer for your curiosity. I can see it plainly. "
84 " He shushed her quietly as he slipped his fingers into her hair, his thumb resting at the hollow of her ear as he cradled her head in his hand. He tilted her up to look at him. It felt incredible. It felt wrong. It was overwhelming. She couldn’t do anything except feel him. His hand, his touch, his nails against her scalp. But then, there was what came with it. The feeling of dark wings spreading out against a night sky. The joy of the hunt. The beauty of the stars painted behind a crimson moon that followed him wherever he went. Beneath it was the taste of sand. The taste of an old sun, burning him. Blood. Hunger. The joy of victory. The coldness of the grave. Him. "
85 " He lowered his head to hers. All her thoughts froze. She tried to pull back from him, but his grasp in her hair tightened. “Lead the hunters to me. Light the torches, bring your weapons, and stop me if you can. You will fall. And when you do—when you kneel—it will be at my feet.” His lips ghosted over hers, and she felt him smile. “And what a glorious sight it shall be.” And with that, he kissed her. "
86 " If the only soul I have ever loved in all my eons judges me unworthy to live, I accept my fate. Put me in my grave, Lydia. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of None (The Masks of Under, #5)
87 " Simon? If you didn’t want to get in my pants, would I also be on your shit list?” “Oh, cupcake. I don’t have a list. It’d be too long to track. I keep a list of the people I don’t despise. Much easier that way. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , The Clown (Harrow Faire, #3)
88 " You’ve got a vile mind, Cora. I like it. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , The Puppeteer (Harrow Faire, #2)
89 " He didn’t grab at her wrist and didn’t force the knife away from his throat. If anything, he tipped his chin back to give her easier access. He watched her, his face free of anything but a kind of passive acceptance edged in grief. She hung there silently, wide-eyed and unsure of what to do. “I take this to mean you are upset with me,” he said after letting her inability to answer hang in the air for a long moment. He still didn’t move to stop her. “Do it, if you must. My life is yours to spend. Now, as it always has been, and ever will be, my love. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Queen of All (The Masks of Under #6)
90 " Into the darkness of my mind, my soul, I stare. Nothing shall gather within the shadows. In the twisting nettles, the briars, the thorns, I feel the pain that makes me whole. Balm not the biting sands that sting my flesh, for in that sorrow is my joy. To suffer is to live.” Aon "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of Blood (The Masks of Under #4)
91 " nearly killed you so many times, Lydia. So many moments where I was on the brink of giving in to what I wanted to do to your mortal flesh. Or worse, losing myself into the insanity and tearing you to pieces as though I were a rabid animal. You walked the razor’s edge every day you spent in my presence, ignorant to how close to real danger you truly were.” “But he never did it.” “We are the same man,” he snarled, annoyed again that she had called them different people. “And I would have. It would have only been a matter of time. Edu merely killed you before my own insanity would have done the deed. "
92 " I will follow you to the ends of the Earth. I will stay at your side until we crumble to dust. I will protect you as best I can, even from myself. And when I cannot, I can only pray you rip what’s left of me apart. Because I never, ever wish to hurt you. And I never, ever wish to fail you. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , The Faire (Harrow Faire, #5)
93 " Heed Our words, Our Oracle, We said. A queen shall rest in her temple, Alone, weakened, afraid. A king shall rise and seek her doom. But know this; It shall be friendship… That proves to be her undoing. "
94 " Let all the stars in all the worlds burn to dust; he would have the void swallow them whole before he would let her go. "
95 " Only you would apologize to me for what others have done to you, my beautiful, wonderful, silly creature. "
96 " I do dislike it when you smoke,” she commented. “I don’t do it often, at least. Only when I want to look cool. So, I don’t need to do it around you.” She chuckled and elbowed him. “Ass. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Burning Hope (The Cardinal Winds #2)
97 " I think God, should he exist, had nothing to do with your existence. Well, to be specific, that you weren’t some so-called ‘holy sign’ of the so-called ‘intelligent design’ of the universe. I think, and this is my personal belief, that we merely exist because the universe is vast and wildly chaotic. Variables aligned, and here we are. You are no different than us. Just smaller and brief. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Blood of Angels (Halfway Between #2)
98 " I find myself jealous of my own shadow. For it is that which I cast upon the ground that you love, not me. "
99 " There is nothing more dangerous than the righteous with power. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Kiss of the Necromancer (Memento Mori, #1)
100 " When she slipped under the covers and her head met the pillow, she was almost instantly asleep. But not before she placed her fingers against her lips, recalling the brief sensation of a kiss. It had only lasted the barest second before it shattered with the rest of the memory. But it was enough. It was the only kiss she had ever known. And it was paid to her by a monster and a tyrant set to destroy her city and thousands of lives. Nothing in life can ever be simple, can it? "