Heat of the Everflame Quotes

“Show me your worst, my darling, and I’ll show you how far my love can go.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“For all those caught in the flames, remember that the hottest fires forge the strongest swords.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Hate is easy—it’s mercy that requires the greater strength.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Desire?” He gave a dark, throaty laugh. “Desire is a pathetic word for what I feel for you. I require you. I am sustained by you. You are the flame that fuels my fire. Don’t you dare question that—not for a second.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Don’t mistake the pain of change for failure.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Satisfaction is the death of curiosity.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I kept the scar as a symbol of that promise.” His focus rose to me. “But you are the woman I pledged myself to. And now, this scar is for you.” He laid his hand over mine to flatten it over the scar’s rippled edge. “Let all those who might try to tear us apart see this and know how far my devotion will go. I will suffer for you, bleed for you, but most of all, I will survive for you. My body can be carved in two, open and dying, and still I will crawl from the ruins of my flesh and fight my way back to your side. Death itself could not keep me away. “My oath to you is written on my skin. Once, that vow was just to serve you.” He brought my hand to his mouth and kissed my knuckles. “Now, it is everything.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“When it seems like the world wants to crush your spirit and burn you alive, never forget my little flames, pressure and heat make diamonds.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I want there to be no part of you that you hide from me because you fear it’s a part I will not love. I treasure your darkness as much as your light.” He dropped his mouth a breath away from mine, his words a whisper on my lips. “Show me your worst, my darling, and I’ll show you how far my love can go.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I used to play a game where I would change the subject and see how long it took him to bring you up. It never took more than three sentences. He had it bad.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Your Majesty... you are our Crown.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I wonder where she picked up her habit of disappearing on the people who love her with no explanation,” Luther said flatly.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“you dare mistake compassion for lack of courage,” he growled. “Anyone can slaughter their enemies. Hate is easy—it’s mercy that requires the greater strength. I’ll be damned if I let you believe that beautiful heart of yours is a weakness. Trust your instincts, my Queen—above all else, trust yourself.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“an education is the most powerful weapon of them all.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“It is not just my body that craves you, Diem. It is my heart.” He clutched at his chest. “My scarred, ruined scrap of a soul. Your smiles, your affection, the way you look at me, the way you see me... that is my lifeblood. I would sooner wither without food or water, sink into the sea until my lungs burst, abandon my magic and let my godhood burn me alive from within than endure one more day of life without you in it.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I am Diem Bellator.” I stared up through my lashes, the glow of the Crown casting ominous shadows down my face. “And I kneel for no one.” Fight.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“He was also dangerously skilled. It seemed all five of his brain cells had been devoted to the art of the fight.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“He threw his head back and laughed. “You’re very cocky for a woman. What is it you think you have that I don’t?” “Knuckles that don’t drag when I walk. The ability to breathe through my nose. A neck.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Nuestra noche se acerca y, cuando llegue, seré la última primera vez que tengas.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I had little faith in gods or men, but I believed in the fearsome dedication of Luther Corbois with every fiber of my being.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I barely made it to the parlor before my knees gave in. My hands clamped across my mouth to muffle the sound as sorrow tore out of me in great, heaving sobs. Not for me, but for the man in my bed, from whom so much had been taken and so little given in return. A man for whom something as simple as happiness had been a rare, fleeting gift. A gift the gods hadn’t even let him keep for more than a day.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“I wanted him inside me. Not just between my legs—I wanted his blood coursing through my veins, his bones fused to mine to make me strong. I wanted to tear myself open and keep a piece of him hidden away inside me from this vicious world that kept trying to tear us apart. My need for him burned in my lungs, hammered in my heart, slicked between my clenching thighs.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“All the nights I ever have—they all belong to you.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“There is no place in all of existence I would rather be than between your legs, and there’s no part of you I do not long to consume. With my eyes. With my hands. With my mouth.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“But we don’t always get to keep the people we love forever,”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“You cannot solve a problem you refuse to look at,” I said.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“It takes being denied what you want to understand the power of wanting more. Satisfaction is the death of curiosity. And this group has been satisfied in abundance.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Don’t you dare mistake compassion for lack of courage,” he growled. “Anyone can slaughter their enemies. Hate is easy—it’s mercy that requires the greater strength.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“Perhaps the Umbros Queen was planning to have a feast over our executions. “Don’t fight back,” Zalaric warned. “She’s ruthless about protecting her reputation. Don’t insult or threaten her, Diem. Be quiet and polite and—” Taran groaned. “We’re all gonna die.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame

“And don’t forget why they banned these books for mortals in the first place.” “Why is that?” “Because an education is the most powerful weapon of them all.”
― Penn Cole, Heat of the Everflame