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“I would let you do anything to me, beyond what even the most depraved gods could conceive.”
― Evie Marceau

“Tell me how you were thinking of me when you were kissing him.”
I bare my teeth as a white-hot flare of anger engulfs me. “I wasn’t. I hate you—I don’t think of you at all.”
“You’re so fucking pretty when you lie," he murmurs.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“With the face of an angel on a beast’s body, it feels like a crime for the gods to have given someone so brutish such beauty.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“He’s striking. He’s savage. He’s undeniably gorgeous.
And yet all I can think is: They sent a beast for me.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Lord Charlin’s eyes bug out in indignation. “She’s my daughter.”
“Not anymore, she isn’t. You sold her to save your own skin. The only man with a claim on her now is my master.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Listen, little violet,” I say to her. “You are the property of Lord Rian Valvere, who has entrusted me to bring you to him without incident. You will obey my commands on the ride, do you understand?”
She looks down at me through her long lashes and says evenly, “Oh, I have plenty of experience with people who expect me to obey.”
This pampered princess? She’s known no hardship, of that I feel certain.
And yet the little flower might have thorns after all.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“There’s something inside me that’s twisted like tree roots, broken like a faulty arrow. The fae gods made a mistake when they blessed me.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“His hand falls to his borrowed shirt on my shoulder, fingers twisting in the fabric. His touch sets my skin on fire, and all I can think is:
I shouldn’t want more. I want more . . .”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“That girl, there? The one you thought you could take from me? Whatever bounty you thought she was worth, I assure you, she’s worth it one hundred times over. I would tear the living world down to the gods’ underrealm for her—and I’ll happily butcher you.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“I saw a different side to him tonight—but that’s just one more reason why I have to run. The last thing I need is to start caring about a beast.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“She’s even cleverer than I suspected, and so damn determined. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to take any pity on her when she’s mine again.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Wolf is huge, and with his arms folded around me, I feel shielded from danger.
But of course, that’s a farce—he’s the danger.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“For days now, I’ve fallen asleep to her heartbeat. I’ve drowned in her violet scent. I’ve stroked my own hand after touching her silky skin. Now, more than anything, I want to taste her.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Get your goddamn hands off her,” he threatens, “Or I’ll rip them off your arms.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“A girl like her doesn’t want rubies and gold. She wants claws.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Finally, I have the taste of violets on my tongue again. But kissing Sabine isn’t like eating candied flower buds. It’s devouring the whole cake. The whole fucking meal. Kissing Sabine is everything.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Two rooms?” she attempts to correct me.
“One.” My voice grinds dangerously against my teeth. It might not be proper for an unmarried man and woman to share a room, but I don’t give a fuck about propriety.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Sometimes I think loving Sabine would be the most terrible and most wonderful thing in the world.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“That kiss. By the Immortals, that kiss.
It took my breath away. In the weeks we’ve spent together, Basten has only broken his absolute fealty to his master twice: the first time was to let me wear his shirt, and the second was when he kissed me.
Me.
I’m his weakness.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“I’d bleed for her. I’d break bones for her. I’d cut my own heart out of my chest if she only asked it of me, and I’d willingly die at her feet with the still-pumping organ in my hands, an offering for this girl whose worth rivals the gods.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“My body alone isn’t enough to tempt him, but can I dare offer him more? My heart is all I have left to give, and if I surrendered it, I’d have nothing.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Nature will never betray me like a man.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“What I would give for one more day with her love instead of her hatred. I’d find a way to snare the stars and put them on her dinner plate.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Admit it,” I growl. “You were thinking about me when you stuck your tongue down his throat.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Our lips come together like warring armies, our passions crashing violently, hatred and love all mixed up, and it feels like stars colliding, like beautiful devastation. This is wreckage, but I’ll die happily here.”
― Evie Marceau, White Horse Black Nights

“Now that I finally have you,” he murmurs, “I’m never letting you go. If I lost you, the seven kingdoms would burn to ash in the wake of my fury. You’re my reason for living. My beginning, my middle, and my damn end.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games

“Don’t you understand? I would give up every prize beneath the heavens just to win one more day with you. Little violet, you’re the dream I dare not wake from. The dream I never thought I could make real.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games

“The love I feel for Basten burns like a fae candle, never to be put out. It will burn and burn and burn until the world falls.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games

“The memories of our time together keep drawing me back to her like bees to honey. And hell, what a dream it would be to taste her nectar over and over—a whole lifetime of it.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games

“I’m no good for her. In no world, even the realm of dreams, would I ever be good for her.”
― Evie Marceau, Silver Wings Golden Games