Slaying the Shadow Prince Quotes

“If you need words of comfort, perhaps remember this: there are all kinds of darkness in this world. Some good, some bad, and some with no agenda at all. It’s what that darkness means to you and what you do with it yourself that matters most.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Love didn’t happen once, she realised. It happened every day, in little moments, in the quiet gaps between grand words, in the lingering touches, in the hope it promised in the dark. Love was something that breathed and expanded, that was made and remade, again and again, reforged only to become stronger.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“I had it under control.’ ‘I know you did.’ ‘Then why interfere?’ ‘Because you did not pick that battle, and sometimes, it’s nice to be fought for.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“We take our happiness when and where we can. I’m glad you found yours, even if it’s in the middle of a storm of darkness.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Ignoring the others, he grasped her hands in his. ‘Since the moment I met you, I have felt like I was soaring. With you there is no ground beneath my boots, no rail to hold on to, and for a time there, I fought it with all my might… But no more. I’ve let go. And Wildfire, it’s more than I could have ever imagined. With you, I didn’t fall in love. I rose amid it, stronger than ever before.’ Talemir took a trembling breath, baring his soul like he never had. ‘I love you against all reason.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Not only was he an entitled, fragile man-child, but he was a fucking idiot as well.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Someone told me there are all kinds of darkness in this world. And that it’s what you do with it yourself that matters most.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Sometimes, to love someone, we have to let them go. And that sometimes, in order to go where we need to, we must turn away from one path, onto another…”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“there are all kinds of darkness in this world. Some good, some bad, and some with no agenda at all. It’s what that darkness means to you and what you do with it yourself that matters most.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“To punish them for the stain they had left on his now black heart, and for the way they’d hardened Wilder, the boy, now man, who had once been so carefree.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“The kiss was a brand, a claim.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“The Dancing Badger… She wondered what its sister venues were like and who had founded such a network.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“There is some unfinished business between us, Warsword.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Don’t underestimate the skills you can learn from a romance book.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“With you, I didn’t fall in love. I rose amid it, stronger than ever before.’ Talemir took a trembling breath, baring his soul like he never had. ‘I love you against all reason.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“Do you regret it?’ Talemir locked eyes with her. ‘Never.’ ‘Even though it has led to so much heartache?’ she pressed. ‘It led me to you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“In the place of a celebrated Warsword was a deadly master of shadow, talons unsheathing at his fingertips as he wielded wisps of obsidian into the shape of nightmares. He had been a hero once. Now, he was cursed with the half-life of a shadow wraith.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“stilled”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“A smile broke across that beautiful face. ‘She sounds brilliant.’ ‘She’s a pain in the arse, mostly.’ Talemir answered her with a grin of his own as he dared to tuck a loose strand of hair behind her ear. ‘But she has her moments.’ Drue laughed deeply, and to Talemir, there was no sound more exquisite.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“You didn’t deserve it,’ Drue said. ‘It happened anyway.’ ‘The worst things always do.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“I’d rather fucking die than risk a pregnancy in this shithole.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince

“There are many things I don’t do that I would gladly do for you,’ he murmured.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Slaying the Shadow Prince