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21 " I fell for you when you were Hawke, and I kept falling for you when you became Casteel. "
― Jennifer L. Armentrout , A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2)
22 " Make me feel incompetent and kill more than me, Princess. "
23 " But even so, sometimes, the heartbreak that comes with loving someone is worth it, even if loving that person means eventually saying goodbye to them. "
24 " He may hate being called the Dark One, but he has earned that name.” Kieran’s pale eyes met mine as a shiver curled its way down my spine. “But he’s the one thing in all the kingdoms that you, and only you, never have to fear. "
25 " He was both the villain and the hero, the monster and the monster-slayer. "
26 " I need to feel your lips on mine." He planted his hands on the carriage wall, caging me in. "I need to feel your breath in my lungs. I need to feel your life inside me. I just need you. It's an ache. This need. Can I have you? All of you? "
27 " Just so you know, Penellaphe doesn’t need protection. She is more than capable of handling things herself. But that is my future you are walking away with. Guard her well. Your life depends on it. "
28 " You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains. "
29 " Dear gods, you have her on her own horse? Soon, she’ll be running one of us over instead of stabbing us. "
30 " You’re an absolutely stunning, murderous little creature,” he murmured. "
31 " You don’t deserve everything that I’ve laid at your feet, and you sure as hell don’t deserve the fact that I’m still trying to hold onto you. That when it comes time for you to leave, I’m still going to want you. Even when you inevitably do leave, I’ll still want you. "
32 " He smiled up at me, his eyes twin golden flames. “I do so prefer hand-to-hand combat with you,” he said, catching my other wrist when I swung my fist down. “I like how close it brings us, Princess.”I shrieked my frustration – my irritation – at him. At myself. “There is something so wrong with you!”“Probably, but you know what?” He lifted his head off the ground. “That’s the part you like the most. "
33 " There is no side of you that is not as beautiful as the other half. Not a single inch isn’t stunning.” His lashes lifted, and the intensity in his stare held me captive. “That was true the first time I said it to you, and it is still the truth today and tomorrow. "
34 " He had my whole heart, and he had from the moment he allowed me to protect myself, from the moment he stood beside me instead of in front of me. "
35 " His fingers slipped under it as his hand curved on my shoulder. "You lie so sweetly".I ignored that. "Casteel---""But not as sweet as you say my name".I let out a little growl. "You are...""Marvelous? Charming? Undeniable?""Increasingly annoying "
36 " I am Hawke,” he said after a moment. “And I am Casteel. I’m not two separate people, no matter how badly you want to believe that. "
37 " A cell is a cell, no matter how comfortable it is. "
38 " Feelings were not stagnant. Neither were opinions or beliefs, and if we stopped believing people were capable of change, then the world might as well be left to burn. "
39 " Told him that if a woman fights with that kind of passion and makes you work that hard to earn even a smile, then that’s the kind of woman you want by your side in and out of the bedchamber. "
40 " I lost myself to the freedom of being able to read any book I wanted. "