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1 " To the man who was hustling to sell facemasks for years before Covid, living rough on the streets and warning us of the nightmare to come. May your cardboard doomsday signs be framed and celebrated. May we always heed your warnings in future, no matter if the next plague requires wearing glittering buttplugs 24/7 to ward off the Coronass virus of 2021. May we never take you and your wild ramblings for granted again. We will buy your buttplugs, good sir. Just name your price. "
― Caroline Peckham , Broken Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac, #4)
2 " always see you coming," Gabriel confirmed. "But I'm still never prepared for you when you arrive. "
3 " There are songs for every emotion. Sometimes you listen to something because it reflects what you're feeling, other times you listen because it portrays what you want to feel. "
4 " There is only one person who can run rings around a king, Elise,” he said slowly. “Let alone four of them at once.” “Oh yeah?” I joked. “And who’s that?” “A queen. So maybe it’s time you started thinking about what good you want to do now that you’ve been crowned. "
5 " I still don’t know what else this meant, but I did know one thing. My feelings for the other kings hadn’t been diminished by my mate bond to Leon. And if I could have this with one of them then I intended to win them all back to me. "
6 " Two flames, one anchor. You'll find them when they need you most. "
7 " It’s how he shows he cares,” he said with a smirk. “One of these days I know he’ll gift me a vision of him tossing me from a cliff Mufasa and Scar style and then I know we’ll be bros for life. "
8 " Smiles could be faked, but tears were the most real thing in the world. "
9 " But they didn’t need Pegasus blood, so I got the feeling the punishment if I tried to run would be death. Shit on it. Shit on it. Shit on it! My mind whirled as I tried to figure out any way that I could do this, and it came to me in a bolt of clarity as I fought to make my horrified features stay calm. First I needed to regain enough control over my actions to be able to run in the first place by working my way higher in the ranks. Then I was going to have to die. Or at least, everyone had to believe I was dead. "
10 " I kicked the door open and roared a battle cry with fire blazing around my hands like an absolute badass. But there was no one there. "For fuck's sake, I won't do it as awesomely as that next time. "
11 " The little angel, the warring gang leaders, the thief and the Seer with no past? There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I don't think I'm grasping the punchline. Or maybe I'm it. "
12 " I looked over at Ryder who was sitting on the ground, his gaze continually trailing to Elise. He might have pissed me off, but I wasn't done befriending him yet. One day soon we were going to be having sleepovers and pillow fights and he'd giggle like a school girl at my jokes. If it wasn't written in the stars already, I was going to get my Sharpie and scrawl it up there to make it so. "
13 " It can all stop if you just put your power in me, Rydikins," I encouraged. "Just put it in. Just the tip. "
14 " If you try to hug me again, I will grow a vine so far up your ass that it'll get lodged in your throat and suffocate you to death," he warned. "
15 " Can you stop talking about it like you're about to fuck me in the ass, because it's making this impossible. Let me do the pushing, I’m not a taker in any sense. "
16 " Let's not talk about what we all kill for," Leon said lightly. "I'm sure Gabriel would kill to protect his roof tent and I'd kill to protect a sandwich, so we're all capable of murder for reasonable things. "
17 " Nothing worth having in life comes easy. "
18 " As I pushed the ring onto my finger, I saw two Phoenixes dancing before my eyes. The Order was long extinct, but I could feel the heat of their blue and red fire in that moment as intensely as if they were right before me. It was beautiful. The ring hummed against my flesh and I gasped as flames seemed to burn right into my blood. I stared in wonder as the ring dissolved into my flesh on my middle finger and left a mark there like a tattoo of two wings joining at the base and wrapping around to create an almost complete circle. "
19 " You're gonna fall." He snorted a laugh, twizzling his finger though the air and spiralling it down to his legs while he whistled. "You'll go weeeeeee - splat." I swung for him, trying to punch him but my fist sailed through the air and hit nothing. "I won't fall. I'm the Lana - Laynar - Loo-naar King. "
20 " Them! And the man with the power!” “What power?” I demanded. “The power of voodoo.” “Voodoo?” I frowned. “You do! "