Alex Temples > Quotes

“My cheeks burned, and the creature in front of me laughed, a deep, dark sound, filled with mirth and a touch of madness.
This one was dangerous. My fae part told me to get as far away from it as possible, for this was what fae were before. This one was ancient, and he was playing with me.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two

“Hearing his voice undid me. Silky smooth, a rumble in the darkness. It coated me, washing over me until I was drowning in it. It was a plea, a prayer, and a question, all wrapped into one. Emotion surged through me like a tornado, and suddenly I was compelled by the need to touch him, to know that he was real.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two

“Everyone lifted their glass. There was a tumbling of words in many languages. As we drank, the great gulfs between us became irrelevant. We focused on the one thing we shared - a truth that has united many men before us, and would unite many more when we were gone.
We drank to the uncertainty of it all, to the fragility that was life, the delicate balance of good versus evil. We drank to the certainty that freedom from tyranny and oppression was all that truly mattered. We drank to the deep, human need to live and let live, and to our shared commitment to stamp out anything that would prevent us from doing so.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two

“It was like going back to a childhood home after decades away. You knew it intimately and saw past the changes time had wrought, the nostalgia seeping into you as forgotten memories sprang up, but it wasn’t quite right. It didn’t belong to you anymore, and you were left torn by the desire that things be as they once were, and the realization that the present was as it should be.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two

“He thought he’d hidden it, but I’d seen the flicker of hope in his eyes after we kissed. He thought there could be something between us. I hadn’t had the heart to crush that hope. So, since the kiss, something had hung between us, unspoken words, this new thing I’d created -embers that either needed to be stoked or put out.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two

“While I’d never quite fit in as a child, I’d only had a few months to feel like a true freak, an outcast, who didn’t quite belong in the mortal world or the fae world. Claire had lived her entire life like that. We were, Claire and I, two pariahs, who finding each other now, saw the possibility of belonging.”
― Alex Temples, The Book of Eden: The Keepers Series, Book Two