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Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3) QUOTES

Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3) QUOTES

21 " Christ on a cobnut!" he yelped, ducking behind the horse. "Lady thief, stop this madness!"
"Allan?" I cried, stopping. "What in God's name is going on?"
He peered around the horse. "Good Lord, you're even scary when you're dead."
"I'm not dead!" I shouted.
"Well, I didn't know that before!" Allan shouted back. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

22 " A fighting man will die without something to fight for."
"And a woman?" I asked her.
She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

23 " I wouldn't fix a broken thing only to see it shatter before my eyes a moment later. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

24 " I won't go with  you," Allan told me.
I scowled. "No one asked you to come."
He looked offended in a rather dire way. "Who will entertain you? "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

25 " Come let's go inside. I'm sure you and your men are hungry."
"Yes," Allan said, grinning.
"Shameless," I heard David grunt.
"There is no glory in shame," Allan said back. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

26 " Boy," David said, pointing. "That's not our horse."
"Of course it isn't," Allan said, coming out from the inn with a wide stretch and a yawn. "It's mine."
"Christ Almighty." David sighed. "I thought we got rid of you."
"You don't mean that for a moment," Allan said, mounting his horse. "Besides, did you really think to go to Ireland without one of her favorite native sons?"
"Clearly a foolish hope," David muttered, mounting as well.
I swung up onto the horse, feeling my body ache as my muscles settled into place. "Play nice, boys. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

27 " I look terrible in this," Allan whined.
David scowled at him. "The great trickster. I thought you could pretend to be whatever you wanted. Having difficulty being me?"
"But I look so much handsomer as me," Allan said. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

28 " We could leave him here, fair thief," he confided in a none-too-quiet whisper.

"If you can forgo your penchant for big, strong men."

"He is required protection by the queen. And it has nothing to do with my penchants, Allan—I just send to be in the same business as big, strong men, only they need to be twice as tall and twice as heavy to do what I can in half the time," I snapped. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)

29 " The man who told me had no reason to lie."
Kate frowned. "Every man has a reason to lie."
"Not when he were planning to murder me a moment later. "

― A.C. Gaughen , Lion Heart (Scarlet, #3)