A Kiss of Iron Quotes

“For the women who are, behind their smiles, fucking furious.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“How does making you small keep you safe? Laughing quietly, folding your hands, letting the men talk. Are they matters of your safety or just keeping you manageable?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Who made you deny yourself so much? Who hurt you so badly your only protection was to persuade yourself you wanted nothing at all?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Survival alone is not enough. There comes a point when you need to live.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Survival is a slow death. No one can keep treading water forever—it’s just a slow way to drown. If their situation doesn’t change—if no lifeline comes or they don’t find a boat or solid ground—they will sink.” His eyebrows knitted together even tighter as he searched my gaze. “I don’t want to see you sink, little ember.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“That foolish part was the silly girl who’d loved stories of romance and adventure, staying up late to read them to her sister. She was the girl who’d hoped to one day marry for love. She’d been innocent of duty, of reality.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“She’s far above you, Langdon.” There was a flash of sharp canine as Bastian spoke. “Keep her name out of your mouth.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I told you, Katherine. It’s a tragedy for a beautiful flame to be starved of fuel and allowed to gutter so low, it doesn’t even know it’s a flame anymore.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Everything is dangerous. The things that feel safe are the worst of all. But this whole business of living is dangerous. Sometimes you just need to dive in anyway.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Didn’t Lara’s death remind you how damn short your life is?” He spoke with a low ferocity. “Too short to deny yourself. Too short to spend it locked up in other people’s rules.” He released my shoulders. “Consider that next time someone offers you cake. It’s there to be eaten. Just like life is to be enjoyed.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Take what you want for once, not only what you need.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Pearlwort to save you from the faeries. Pearlwort to guard your heart.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You’re making it sound like I’ve done something wrong by being with you, but it feels like this is the first right thing I’ve done in my life.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’ve done awful things, Kat. Some I’m not proud of. Don’t think that just because I’ve helped you, I’m some noble hero. I’m the villain in many other people’s stories.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“When I emerged from what I now realised was a shirt, my eyes burned and my lip trembled. Bastian’s brow crumpled. “Oh, love.” He pulled me against him. “But I wet myself. I’m dir—” “I don’t care.” He squeezed me like he really didn’t care that my legs were still covered in my own piss.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“What must it be like to be one of them? A man. A very, very wealthy man. One with status and power. One who could sleep with a dozen women and face no consequence. One who didn’t live in fear of saying or doing the wrong thing, or even the rumour that he had. One whose estate made more money in a year than I’d known in a lifetime.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Did he realise I was spying? Or did he just think I was some kind of pervert? Which was worse?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“- Que faire quand on découvre que quelqu’un n’est pas celui que l’on pensait ?
- Quand une personne te montre qui elle est, crois-la.
P496”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Then burn for me, my ember. I want to see you become a flame.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You have power over us—physical domination, fear. How are we meant to win when you can hold us down and strangle us with your bare hands?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’m sorry, darling, I quite forget myself. Lady Eloisa-Elizabetta-Belladonna Fortnum-Knightly-Chase.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I’m just trying to survive. You have no idea what that requires.” “Survival is a slow death. No one can keep treading water forever—it’s just a slow way to drown. If their situation doesn’t change—if no lifeline comes or they don’t find a boat or solid ground—they will sink.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“find”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“What am I going to do with you? What nonsense lies live in this pretty head of yours?” She stroked my hair and held me a long while. I didn’t deserve it, but I also didn’t pull away. Just as I sank into a doze, head in her lap, she spoke again. “I’ll help you unlearn it all.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“A bigger part of me enjoyed it, though, like it was an antidote to some poison I’d taken long ago.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“The druid sprinkled lunar water and placed a yew branch on her casket before the grave diggers filled it in.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“That perfect mouth spread into a wicked grin. “Not entirely appropriate.” He said it slowly, like he savoured each word and the fact I’d said it. “You’ve just described my entire existence.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Pointed ears. As sharp as the dagger at my belt. He was even more deadly than steel. Because he was a fae. A fucking fae. And I’d just stolen from him.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“He didn’t treat me badly because of me. He treated me badly because of him.
That more than the strike made my eyes burn. It had never been me.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“turning”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron