New Powers Quotes

“Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.”
― C. S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama

“And I take it the distraction from before was at your location, Lady Thea?" Ryker kneeled down next to me, putting an arm around my shoulders.
The Lady of Winter tightened her hold on the little girl. "It was, but we stopped it."
"There was a loud boom," Ryker prodded for details.
Thea's mouth was a grim line. "There was. It seems someone... someone came into her powers unexpectedly. The threat was handled." Her eyes fell to the child cuddled under her chin, shivering in a pink nightgown, not from the chill but from the trauma of the night. We all stared, and the girl peeked around her little shoulder long enough to show me the flash of blue eyes to match Thea's under the mop of dark hair that matched Devin's.”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Dragons

“Her eyes dropped to the ground at his feet. Even in the dark, she could see the earth respond to him. Long-forgotten bulbs pushed through the dark, wet soil. His wilderness stunned her. It—he— was breathtaking. Leaves clung to Arthur’s skin without dying. Smudged in soil, raw as rain, he looked to her like a god of the woods.
And she wanted every part of him.”
― Ruth McKell, Honey in Her Veins