Fall of Ruin and Wrath Quotes

“The glass slipped from my fingers.” An eyebrow rose. “Slipped all the way across the room?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“There was a moment of silence. "Once more, you've proven just how brave you are."
"I just...I just did what I thought was right."
"And that often takes the most bravery, doesn't it?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“All right. I needed to stop thinking. And staring. Maybe even breathing. Perhaps dying would be a good choice at the moment.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“But as with most things that are beautiful on the outside, there is nothing but ruin and wrath on the inside.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“I knew in that moment what I'd discovered several times throughout my life: there had to be something seriously wrong with me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“This should come as a surprise to no one, but just so we are all clear, what I want? I get. And what I want is for you to keep me company during my stay here.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“The most exquisite kind of pleasure is derived from bestowing it upon another.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“It was still there, like a shadow in the back of my mind. That I should be out there. With him. Where I belonged.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“There is something I require from you, Baron,” Prince Thorne said after a moment, his other hand returning to my waist while I focused on slowing my breathing and my heart. “I want her.”
I went stiff.
“I want her,” Prince Thorne repeated. “For the duration of my time here, she is mine.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“The longer you're alone, the more interesting you become to those around you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“An ass was an ass. There was nothing spectacular about any ass,”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“I had no idea why I'd even said what I had. I had no future planned beyond this day, this night. I couldn't when living simply meant surviving to the next day or dreading what could come, which wasn't really living at all. But that was all I knew.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Few things are black-and-white, Lis. Most of life exists in that messy gray area in between, but if you wanted what was happening— you enjoyed it and so did the other— then there’s nothing wrong, she’d said. Anyone who tells you different either hasn’t been where you’ve been or they’re just living a different life. Doesn't make either of you right or wrong.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“I’m focussed on you enough that I can tell exactly what caused that hitch in your breath – when it’s not fear that causes a change in your breathing and when it’s pleasure.” A pause. “Arousal.”
I inhaled sharply. “I’m not—”
“Going to lie to me? Because I’d know better.”
“I don’t think you do,” I countered as I scooted back, the shirt snagging around my thighs.
“But please do lie. It amuses me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Being afraid doesn’t lessen one’s bravery,” he said, finishing the last of the buttons. “Nor does desperation. If anything, it strengthens the bravery.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Knowledge rarely makes things easier.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Being afraid doesn't lessen one's bravery,' he said, finishing the last of the buttons. 'Nor does desperation. If anything, it strengthens the bravery.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Your skin is far too lovely to be bruised,' ...”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“From my experience, mortals seem preoccupied with who is better and who is less than.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Na'laa?'

...'Yes?'

'You're staring at me.'
...
'It's okay.' ... 'I'm staring at you.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“...there were few feelings worse than loneliness. Or maybe there actually weren't any, and loneliness was the worst, because it was pervasive, hard to shake, even when you weren't alone, and it worked overtime to convince you that contentment and joy were possible.

But that was a lie.

When you truly spent most of your time alone? When you had to? And not because you wanted to? There was no joy to be found.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“...more times than not, people really didn't want the answers they sought, and the truth of what was to come was often far more destructive than a lie.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Don't even try to lie to me because the way your hips keep squirming will tell a very different story."
"It's telling the story your fingers are writing.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“It was the fact that I could touch him and not see or hear anything. I could just feel. It was because I...I liked touching him. It was because it was him.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“No being is so powerful that they cannot become weak. Not even a lord, a prince, or a king.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“There used to be seven—large swaths of lands surrounded by vast bodies of water,” he said. “There are no longer seven.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“I can think of other things we can be in agreement about that are far better than just nice.” “And then you ruined it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“I know what I said,” he interrupted.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“They took them,” he breathed.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“You feel you don’t know me well enough after I had my fingers inside you and your hand on my cock?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath