The Beauty and the Orcs Quotes

“maybe that was the horrible, final crux of it. Varinn had done it to save Thrain from the drink. And Thrain had done it to give Varinn a son.”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“You deserve better, Kit,” he choked. “You’ve deserved better, all this time. And I ken you’re just trying to take all the blame for Varinn, so the two of us will work it out, but all those things you said” — he barked another hoarse little laugh-sob — “that was all just him doing his damned job, ach? Sniffing out Grisk mothers who need help, offering what they need, helping them get back on their feet, mayhap with some training or some coin? He does that every second week. He’s helped dozens of women like you. That’s what he fucking does, it’s what our clan pays him to do every day — and you know he fucking lives for it.”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“You lied to me,” he choked, flailing his arm toward Varinn, and… and toward Kitty. “About — this. You told me you spoke a vow. You told me you wanted Kit, wanted to make her your mate. But you were lying. Faking it. The whole fucking time, Varinn.”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“I don’t mean I would abandon our son,” she continued wretchedly, with a pained-feeling grimace. “I still want to — to be in his life. But —” But gods, how hadn’t she thought about this? How would she ever manage such a thing? Could she even move away from Orc Mountain, and try to support herself, if she wanted to stay in contact with her son? Could they bring him to visit? Or would she now be trapped here between them forever? And what would happen if Varinn found a woman he truly did care for? What then?”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“This was Varinn desperately trying to grasp control of the situation, of her and Thrain both. And maybe Thrain had even been right, and Varinn was blatantly wielding Kitty and her son against him, in a frantic attempt to bring him back again. To teach him a lesson. To… save him.”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“Thrain had lied to her. He’d left her. He’d only ever cared about Varinn, he still only cared about Varinn. And now she was trapped here, trapped having a son with him, when he didn’t even…”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“should never choose a woman like this one,” he spat at Thrain’s face. “Never. But you did, and then you sparked a son upon her, and left! What did you ken I should do? Throw away a blameless Grisk son, because his father is a careless, thoughtless, bumbling drunken fool?!”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“You ken I should wish to steal her?!” he demanded, with a sharp wave of his hand toward Kitty. “A weak, foolish, thoughtless, spoilt woman, with a hundred scents upon her? A woman who eagerly took you to her bed, when she knew you were yet bound to another?”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“if he did care, he would have come back, right? He wouldn’t have left the way he did, would he? He just made it so, so clear that it was all a mistake, that I meant nothing to him, that he needed to run back home at once, so he could be with…” With you,”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs

“As long as she kept the son, the orc would look after her. Care for her, and… feed her. Keep her safe.”
― Finley Fenn, The Beauty and the Orcs