Swordcrossed Quotes

“So I conned one of the best-looking men I've ever met out of two hundred gold, and now I'm a member of his wedding party, because the goddess has a great fucking sense of humour.”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed

“My mother doesn’t believe in gods, but she does believe in ceremonies. She says that shared behaviour is power, and that even though most of the rituals are weak versions of older, stronger things, as long as they still hold society knitted together, they should be followed.”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed

“How did you solve the slow surrender of yourself to another person, like a dwindling stack of coins at a card table, only to look up from your empty hands to see the cold triumph of your opponent?”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed

“I thought I had simple tastes. I don’t care about pearls or silver. I don’t need silk. I can live without cherries and bottles of Diamond Blend.’ Luca pressed up, incoherently wanting, and Matti obliged him with another bruising kiss. ‘But you,’ Matti breathed. ‘You are the most exquisite thing in this city, and I want you, and I’m going to have you.”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed

“In the daylight, his hair was a riot: a true, bright copper. It looked as though he'd sat in front of a mirror with a curling iron and painstakingly coaxed small pieces of it to curl in different directions. Or else he'd crawled out from a pile of pillows and not bothered to run a comb through it, and gravity had been so amused at the sight that it hadn't interfered.”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed

“Cruel is when you decide that what someone wants doesn’t matter, just because you want them and you think that means you’re owed something.”
― Freya Marske, Swordcrossed