Vows & Ruins Quotes

“You are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. There’s no coming back from you, no end to this wanting…”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Biscuit. Your warhorse, the gift you received for being one of the most infamous warriors in all the midrealms… is called Biscuit.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“You need to look after yourself. To keep yourself healthy so that when I train you, I don’t break you.’ Her pupils dilated. ‘Nothing can break me, Warsword. Least of all you.’ ‘Is that so?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“When I was younger I didn’t know what it was to look at a woman and want to fall to my knees,”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“He’d all but told Althea Zoltaire that he loved her, that she, the lost heir of Delmira, the living storm, owned him mind, body and broken soul.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“She had never seen him falter, had never questioned whether or not he’d keep fighting. Until that moment.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“A pang of guilt hit Thea low in her gut. She’d hurt Wren, and Wren was still inviting her to dinner? But Thea still couldn’t bring herself to agree. ‘I’m”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“his face completely serious as he said, ‘Shall I kill him for you?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“The servant opened the doors to a breathtaking suite. Its design was clear. There was only one bed.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“All this time she had thought Vernich was the fallen Warsword. But it wasn’t him letting the darkness in. There was no denying who had cut the bonds of the monsters before her. It was Wilder.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Don’t you remember me?’ she asked, reaching for something Thea hadn’t noticed hanging around her neck. A flower necklace. Her hand brushed the petals there, before intricate bolts of lightning danced at her fingertips. Thea loosed a breath, not realising that she had taken a step towards that familiar power that called to her. ‘I thought you would recognise your own blood, sister,’ Anya said. Sister. The”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“How I burn for you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“How I burn for you. You lit an inferno within me and it won’t stop. I can’t”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“There was no end to the wanting of her, the loving her. It was in his blood, etched in his bones, and it burned through him like wildfire.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Fuck me till the sun rises, Wilder. Until I can’t remember the war at our doorstep, the magic coursing through me, or even my own damn name.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“But it’s more than that, Thea. To love you… is to be free.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“he was so deeply in love with her it might just consume him.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Wilder Hawthorne had never begged for anything in his life, but for her… For her he would beg.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“When I was younger, I didn’t know a woman could bring me back from the darkness.’ Thea exhaled shakily. ‘A woman can do all of that?’ ‘Not any woman. There is only one. There has only ever been one.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“He was fucked. Well and truly fucked. Because the way he burned for her… No vows, no notion of duty – nothing – could stop it.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“She’d shared herself with him. She’d found her place under his skin and in his heart, and there she’d stayed, despite whatever vows they’d made.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“I knew you’d be my ruin, too,’ Thea whispered.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Furies save him, her touch set him alight, and he’d never stop burning for her.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Life is too short – yours, in particular – to hold grudges against the people you love.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Use your words, Princess,’ he said. ‘What do you want?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“I don’t need protection.’ She pivoted around her friends, just in time to block the whip of another dark coil. ‘And I’m no fucking princess.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Wilder Hawthorne had never begged for anything in his life, but for her… For her he would beg. He needed her not to disappear into herself. He needed… her.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Althea Zoltaire had destroyed him. And it was the greatest privilege of his life.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“Thea echoed the same words he had once said to her in Harenth. ‘You’ll have to try harder than that to hit me.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins

“The searing look Thea shot Wilder would have wilted the hardest of warriors. ‘Did that make you feel like a big man?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Vows & Ruins