Kailin > Kailin's Quotes

“The passion I feel for you is more than you’re prepared for.”
― Kailin Gow, The Phantom Diaries

“There is no law stronger than that of
magic.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you,” Logan said, Silver Frost.”
― Kailin Gow, Silver Frost

“Hush,” I said. “I’m here, and I’m not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight.” I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.”
― Kailin Gow, Silver Frost

“We are meant to be.” He pressed his lips to mine again; against myself, against my worry, I once again succumbed to the power of his kiss. “I know that now. Our love is stronger than magic, stronger than the laws of all Feyland. It will survive this...whatever the future brings.”
― Kailin Gow, Silver Frost

“My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“Dreams, my mother always told me, represend part of our unconsciousness--the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better. For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“Things change, Briony. You can't stop them, and you'll drive yourself crazy if you try.”
― Kailin Gow, Shimmer

“Get her to safety or I will kill you for it.”
― Kailin Gow, Shimmer

“My Dearest Breena,

They will remember us. Long after these wars have been mourned and then forgotten long after Summer and Winter fairies lay aside their rancor for one another and forget that they have ever tasted hatred they will remember – Summer fairies and Winter too – of a fairy king who loved his queen.”
― Kailin Gow, The Fairy Letters

“Don’t worry…three vampire meanies and a horse won’t keep me away from you.”

Kalina looked at Jaegar.

Jaegar shrugged. “If you don’t get it, it’s before your time.”

“And what time is that?”

“The Dark Ages…that’s why you’ve never heard of it before. Everything was kept in the dark…”
― Kailin Gow, The PULSE Papers

“The way you’re talking…” Tears were shining in Kian’s eyes. “It sounds like you don’t think you’re coming back.”
― Kailin Gow, Spring Frost

“How can I rule anyone - when you so completely rule me?”
― Kailin Gow

“A king without a Queen." Kian sighed, breathing mist into the air. He held me tighter, kissing me with a heat that seemed to thaw the very snow on which we stood. "You don't know me as well as you think you do," he said. "What I'm holding back. What I'm capable of. You haven't felt it - how much I love you...”
― Kailin Gow, Silver Frost

“it takes someone brave to do what everyone else is afraid to do first.”
― Kailin Gow, Silver Frost

“I can't wait." Kian pressed my hands to his lips. "I love you with all my heart, all my being, all of myself. Whatever my mother says, whatever the law says, you are still my intended. I can feel it. Feel it the way I feel the power of Winter Magic in my blood. It is a truth more ancient than any laws, any magic. We can still communicate telepathically, with our minds, which is one magic of love. When you have love for someone, and it is returned, lovers can communicate through the mind - as long as we have that connection, we will never be truly parted. Promise me that, Breena.”
― Kailin Gow

“If she did have to describe the kind of person who hunted vampires though, she was certain of one thing. It wouldn't be the kind of person who wore pink fluffy slippers at night and fell asleep in front of the television”
― Kailin Gow, Wicked Woods

“Somehow she felt hollow, as though her heart was wrenched away from her. She didn't realize it. She hadn't expected it. She loved Fallon.”
― Kailin Gow, Wicked Woods

“the dream had come again, like the sun after a storm. It was the same dream that had come many times before, battering down the doors of my mind night after night since i was a child. it was the sort of dreams all girls dream, i suppose- a dream of mysterious worlds and hidden doorways, of leaves that breathe and make music when they are rustled in the wind, and river that bubbles and froth with secrets.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“In his eyes I could see the same love, the same longing. I wanted to kiss him; I wanted him to kiss me, and I could feel his longing so clearly I could not distinguish between my wanting and his. And in his arms I felt safe, warm, alive.”
― Kailin Gow

“He was the only one interested in me."
"Of course he isn't," Steve said. "Practically every boy in the school would want a chance to... ow, Maisy!"
"Sorry, my elbow slipped.”
― Kailin Gow, Wicked Woods

“I didn't want to fight with him. And yet I could not promise him what I most wanted to give - my love, the promise that I would stay with him in the Winter Court, that I would throw caution aside and be with him.”
― Kailin Gow

“As I gave my hand to one and then another of the Winter Knights, hoping to forget Kian's kiss in the arms of the other dancers, I could feel Kian's eyes piercing through me, their flame-tinged ice searing through my soul.”
― Kailin Gow, Forever Frost

“The Winter Prince was before me, with his noble, knightly bearing and the impossible beauty that is paralytic at close range. And I wanted nothing more than to vanish into his arms, and his embrace, but I saw the look on his face and I remembered then that he was my enemy and that there was only one thing to do.

Run.”
― Kailin Gow

“The eyes of the wolf, loving and longing and loyal, were now set squarely in the face of a man, but they were still staring at me with that same devotion, that same puppyish desire. I could feel my heart breaking quietly as I stared at him - a break that I knew was but the smallest echo of what I had made him feel when I broke his heart by the banks of the Crystal River.”
― Kailin Gow

“Mistletoe," said Kian, leading me to a spot in the center of the garden. He kissed me softly. "I hear it means something in your world.”
― Kailin Gow

“I could resist no longer. The love, the desire tearing apart my sould was more than I could bear. I allowed him to take my arm, allowed myself to melt into him, to close my eyes and inhale once more his scent of lavender and winter skies as we walked together towards the orchards.”
― Kailin Gow

“the real world was only a dream, only an echo, and in silent moments throughtout the day it would hit me: i am not at home here.”
― Kailin Gow, Bitter Frost

“the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.”
― Kailin Gow, Forever Frost