Hollow Court Quotes

“So more like me, then,” she offered, still looking decidedly elsewhere. No. Not at all like you. Because I definitely never resist the urge to run my hands through Rowan’s hair or wonder what her favorite white wine tastes like on her lips. “Exactly,” I said with a smirk. Something indiscernible flitted behind her eyes. Then she blinked, and it was gone before I could read it.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“I looked to where his tan-and-navy jacket was buttoned securely over his chest. A flush rose to my cheeks before I could stop it. It was ridiculous. It was just skin. I had seen plenty of men without their clothes on. In Clan Ram, men and women sauna-ed together. This would be no different. Of course, he noticed. The uninjured corner of his mouth tilted up, causing the smallest dimple to appear in his cheek. “Don’t worry, Lady Galina. I promise not to seduce you,” he assured me in a voice that was most certainly designed to do just that.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“May you casually die on the way back to your chambers.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“You can’t always choose who gets your love, but you get to decide who is deserving of your loyalty.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“Now, it was up to me to decide what I was willing to fight for.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“I’ll help you pick out your husband while you pretend you don’t want to stab everyone who so much as looks at me and we both go on like we don’t know what it is to watch the other one come completely undone.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“Because for all that we both claimed to be pretending, nothing about this moment felt like a lie.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“Because the idea of you coming here and marrying someone else just as you’d come back into my life was unthinkable.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court

“Where Mac had died saving a good family from a house fire, I would die in the noble pursuit of bedding beautiful courtiers. So we were both heroes, in our own way.”
― Robin D. Mahle, Hollow Court