Jack > Jack's Quotes

“Touch me and I swear to the gods, I’ll cut your fucking hands off and let the quadrant sort you out in the next round of challenges, Dain Aetos.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Out of the eleven first-years who came through our squad during the year, both before and after Threshing, the five of us are the only ones left standing. For now.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Don’t worry about the bed. We’ll get back there. The anticipation is good for us.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Secrets make for poor leverage. They die with the people who keep them.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“If Solas comes near you again, he knows I will devour his human whole and let him rot within me while his heart still beats, and then I’ll take the eye I so graciously left him.” “That’s…graphic.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Remind him that I threatened to digest him alive.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Before last year, I might have seen you as an appetizer.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Next match is Dain Aetos against Violet Sorrengail.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I believe you all know Wingleader Aetos?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“He was crushed under the weight of a mountain a few months ago, but Nolon has mended bone after bone to return him to your quadrant.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’re currently a prize annoyance.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“To which I will remind you that not a single dragon chose her. You were selected by two. Pull yourself together.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Blond hair and icy-blue eyes appear above me, and my heart plummets with the assassin’s body. Jack Barlowe.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“The low, menacing threat weakens my knees a second before a hand with a dagger reaches around Nora’s throat, slicing without hesitation. She falls, a torrent of blood flowing from the gaping wound in her neck. I look up into the wrath of Dunne in the form of gold-flecked onyx eyes.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I promised you’d die in this room,” I whisper, but I’m shaking too hard to push the blade home. It’s taking everything I have just to stay standing. Xaden’s hand wraps around mine, and he jabs forward, driving the blade into Varrish’s heart. I memorize the look on Varrish’s face as the life fades out of him, just so I can reassure myself that he’s really dead when the nightmares inevitably come. I stare, and stare, and stare as the weight of everything that’s happened closes in on me, threatening to steal my air. My throat squeezes shut and my eyes burn with prickling heat as my thoughts spiral. I just killed the vice commandant of the quadrant.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“She draws back her fist and punches him straight in the face.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Let us watch our father’s heart give out because your death broke him?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Do you know who you sound like right now?” “Please, enlighten me.” He folds his arms across his chest. “Dain.” I shut the door in his face.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“I’ll do it just for fun,” Sloane adds.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Violet?” Sloane moves to Imogen’s side. “Do me a favor and kick her ass.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Look at how beautiful you are, Violet, coming for me on Tyrrendor’s throne.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“What are we supposed to do with them?” “We sew them onto our uniforms,” Ridoc answers from beside me, making a back-and-forth motion with his hand to simulate pulling a needle through his uniform—as though explaining a patch to children.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“She stalks forward, her talons clicking on the floor as she maneuvers around the stone, revealing Jack Barlowe in his seat on Baide’s back. The smile he gives me twists my stomach. “You’re right on time, Sorrengail.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’re going to love Violet. She’s smart and stubborn. Reminds me a lot of you, actually. You just have to remember when you meet her: she’s not her mother. —Recovered Correspondence of
Cadet Liam Mairi to Sloane Mairi”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You’re everything we dreamed you would be,” Mom says quietly, her skin paling even as Sloane’s flushes scarlet. “All three of you.” She looks down at Brennan. “And I’ll get to see him soon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“And yet, you just did.” Jack laughs, and the sound curdles my blood. “All this time, you’ve been convincing everyone you’re the hero, and now you’ll be the villain…especially in her story. Welcome to our fucked-up family. Guess we’re brothers now.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Well, their mouths were sewed shut, as you know, but when we opened them, we found the missing penises.”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“It’s everything I need and more. He’s everything I wish I could be. A hero. A hero loved by a monster.”
― S.T. Abby, Scarlet Angel

“wipe my knife off as the sheriff slowly dies, and I listen to the song that is playing on repeat. I shot the sheriff…”
― S.T. Abby, Paint It All Red