The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3) QUOTES

2 " You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

4 " I glanced in the first open door and stopped short. Desks. Four tiny desks. A wall of faded posters of alphabet animals. A blackboard, still showing the ghost of numbers. I blinked, certain I was seeing wrong.
Derek nudged my legs, telling me to get moving. I looked at him, and I looked at the classroom.
This was where Derek had grown up. Four tiny desks. Four little boys. Four young werewolves.
For a second, I could see them—three boys working at the three clustered desks, Derek alone at the fourth, pushed slightly away, hunched over his work, trying to ignore the others.
Derek nudged me again, whining softly, and I looked down to see him eyeing the room, every hair on his neck on end, anxious to get away from this place. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

6 " And he says I have lousy timing "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

8 " We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

10 " They found me at the kitchen table. Derek said, "There's something we need to tell you," and from the look on Andrew's face, I think he expected Derek to say he'd gotten me pregnant. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

12 " I had a stupid crush on a guy who barely tolerated me most of the time. Was that the kind of girl I was? Pick the jerk over the nice guy? "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

14 " I wanted to walk over there. I wanted to curl up beside him, lean against him, talk to him. I wanted to know what he was thinking. I wanted to tell him everything would be okay. And I wanted him to tell me the same thing. I didn't care if it was true or not- I just wanted to say it. To hear it, to feel his arms around me, hear the rumble of his words, that deep chuckle that made me pulse race "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

16 " Derek lunged. He hit me in the shoulder and knocked me to the floor, landing on top of me. His body jerked, like he'd been hit with the spell, and I let out a yelp, struggling to get up, but he held me down, whispering "I'm okay, it's okay" until the words penetrated. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

18 " I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)

20 " He glanced down at the blood-smeared cut on his side...and realized he wasn't wearing any clothing. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't realized it already. Kind of obvious. It wasn't like he'd been going to take time out to find his clothing before stopping Liam. "

― Kelley Armstrong , The Reckoning (Darkest Powers, #3)