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King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2) QUOTES

King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2) QUOTES

1 " For that day so long ago when he had taken Qta’s life, he had demanded Qta make for him a queen. He had demanded he build someone to love him. Qta refused, and Aon murdered him in his rage. In the desire to love, and more importantly, to be loved, he had destroyed the world. Now, on the eve of their destruction, they taunted him with hope, only to dash it away upon the cobblestones. They chose to mock him with that he could never have. Touché. “Take her now, for you would not have her then.” Aon took a step deeper into the water, sank now up to his waist, and lowered the girl into the pool. Lydia’s body was pulled from his grasp by unseen hands, their power dragging her down into the chasm. Aon climbed from the liquid and returned to the altar, putting the metal mask back on his face. There was comfort in it. He could bury his sorrow there. He could hide it all. He turned to look back at the pool for one last time. “Know that I will be the death that will rain down upon all you have made. "

― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2)

2 " May the Ancients lay damned in their prison until this world ceased to be.
For Aon had loved her.
When she stood from the ground after being tossed from that horse in the woods, when she stood against all that had been levied upon her, he wanted her. When she offered him nothing but contempt, he adored her. When she feared him and desired him all the same, he hungered for her. When she held such compassion for him, he was transfixed.
But when he had first laid eyes upon her, in his dreams as she reached to touch his mask as he lay in his crypt, his heart was already hers. "

― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2)

3 " All of you wish so desperately for me to play the villain. So be it. "

― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2)

4 " Warn the others. Tell them to muster their armies and try to stop me.” Aon stalked toward him slowly, forcing Lyon to retreat. “For millennia I have had to listen to you all whimper and whine like children about how I seek to destroy this world. Heed me now, Priest, and know that you have not once seen me try. "

― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , King of Shadows (The Masks of Under #2)