Wildblood Quotes

“His thumb hooked her lip, his mordant gaze steady on hers. "Tell me you love me."
Her legs squeezed around his waist, and she pressed her forehead to his, her eyes never leaving him. "I love you," she said.
With his teeth bared and his heart a barb in his throat, Kai said the words back—uttered them so quietly that even a ghost couldn't hear. They were for her only—perilous, capable of maiming him—but he said them anyway”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“She was a hurricane, uprooting his dark, fucked-up world, shattering the bleak reality he'd painted himself into. Yet being with her was also an equilibrium, the quiet at the center of a storm. And he was helpless against that storm”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“His eyes drifted to hers, and for the second time that day, he felt a strange reverence for this person who kept choosing him over a world of possibility. And he'd chosen her too, again and again, despite every impulse that drove him to the worst parts of himself”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“No matter how callous the world had made him, he'd been loved by someone who'd chosen him, and in turns he'd chosen to love back”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Eyes rimmed with crimson rose to greet the architect of Caelan's suffering”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Now, in the clarity of the waking world where his senses came alive and desire curled ravenously around his heart, he saw her as if for the first time.
She was stunning”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Not all life was sacred. The world was an endless parade of birth, suffering, and death, and neither man nor nature cared for every pulse strumming its tune”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Kai wasn't guarding his independence; he was simply wounded and afraid. The Big Bad Wolf was also a whimpering bitch, and that was okay”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Lies were a palatable poison, but the truth was a scythe to the soul”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Even when you're broken, even when you're shaped by the emptiness inside you, it's worth it. You find other things to fill that fucking void”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Desolate, unmoored, Miya searched for the one person who could ground her—weave her weakness into strength. He was indominable, a ballast in any storm. Feeling her silent plea, Kai's mordant gaze found her like a compass needle pointing north”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“He may have been a killer, but he refused to be a weapon for anyone but Miya”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Miya, who gave him the spine to look in the mirror, to carve himself open and see what he was made of. Miya, his whole fucking world, because without her, he'd be alone”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Kai's gaze slid to the woman who'd witnessed the worst parts of him and stayed. It wasn't blind loyalty, he realized. She stayed because he'd carved out space for her when his world grew too small, too suffocating. And he'd done it because she'd asked. Because he loved her enough to try”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Youth brings peculiar insight. Unadulterated truths. The wisdom of children, so often overlooked by those courted by their own irrelevance”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“I'm not Death, I'm the fucking calamity that wields it”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“He felt raw. Unhinged save for a single fraying thread that kept him tethered to the ground. Miya”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Deserve is a dumb word. To deserve something, there needs to be some cosmic balance. Someone's got to decide, right? People make up these systems—morality, ethics, capitalism, whatever—and they all have their rules. When good things happen, people think it's because they followed the rules. They think they're being rewarded”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Do you love her?"
"In every way I know how”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“A date?" She scoffed. "I'm about to watch you threaten a man's life."
Kai flashed her a fiendish grin. "We're doing it for love.”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“He wanted to punish her, make her beg with need for him, and he wanted her to enjoy it”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“She made it impossible to look away, unmoored him as much as she grounded him”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“F-freak!" The snitch choked, spit flecking his chin as he struggled to breathe.
Kai slanted his head in consideration. "In the sheets, maybe.”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“But his heart kept beating, kept forcing life and spirit through his veins. That fucking tumor in his chest—that throbbing, malignant mass, violent in it's insistence that he live”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“You're everything to me." The admission left him raw, flayed open”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Miya turned to face him and pressed her lips to his collarbone. "I love you," she said, the words heavier than anything passed between lovers ought to be. Kai was made whole and unraveled all at once”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“In truth, he just didn't get whatever rulebook they were playing by. Life hadn't sent him a copy”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“Kai. So fiercely independent, and yet they were inseparable, two pieces of a plaited whole. They were bound, as the sky and sea are bound, as the sky and sea are bound by the horizon”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“He was her protector, but when it came to the monsters he couldn't see, she protected him”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood

“She sheltered him from his demons as often as he rescued her from her doubts. He was dauntless where she was incisive, and he trusted her to be as sharp as he was ferocious”
― A.J. Vrana, Wildblood