The Elysean Illusion Quotes

“The best gift you can give to yourself is hard work.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“You’re the least selfish person I know,” Shade told me. “Sometimes I wish you were more selfish, but then I think you’re absolutely perfect exactly like this, so never mind.” “You’re a hopeless man.” “I’m an honest man. I’ve never sugarcoated anything a day in my life.” “Then you’re a blind man, too.” “And I still see you.” He kissed my forehead, then my nose, slowly teasing me until I raised my head to meet his lips with mine.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“A son of Echidna and Typhon. A beast. A monster from the Underworld—Oreo?”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I laughed. "Don't you dare attack anyone on my account," I reminded them both.
"Unless someone dares to look at you," Shade said, eyes scrolling down my body once more. "If they do, I pity their poor souls."
"I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to like that," I said with a sigh.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“They said it was the most delicious juice they’d ever tasted, and the most delicious berry they’d ever eaten, and they said it felt like heat going down their bodies—like drinking tea outside in winter, Max described it. But that was it. Mine had definitely not felt like drinking tea outside in winter. Mine had felt like I’d been standing too close to the sun suddenly.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Fuck, Shade…” “Yes—that’s on your to-do list as soon as you’re in control of that magic,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I bet that red lipstick will look great wrapped around my cock. I can’t wait to see it.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Is there anything you don’t see, Shadow Boy?” I said with a roll of my eyes, just for show. He chuckled. “Not when it comes to you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I keep thinking, there’s no way she can become even more beautiful than this every single day, and you prove me wrong each morning. It’s become my favorite game to play with myself.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Don’t talk to me about fair, baby. I get to watch you from afar every day. I get to watch you wear my colors and my perfume, I get to watch your ass when you swing those hips the way you do, but I can never touch you. I get to watch you training, stretching and twisting, but I can’t bend you over the way you need,” he said, his voice heavier and darker with each word. “I get to watch you smiling and laughing and never know what you’re saying because I can’t get close enough.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I’ll put you over my knee and slap that gorgeous ass raw, for starters,” he said, and heat spilled all over me as if it had fallen from the ceiling. “Then I’ll fuck that word right out of your mouth for a long time.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Say that word again and I will punish you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Then I’ll tie you to my bed and worship every inch of your body the way I do in my mind,” he whispered, and good thing I wasn’t standing because my legs were so weak. “I’ll keep going until you forget that word for good.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Well, I don’t want it. If I could give it back, I would,” I said, and it was a miracle my voice didn’t break. “Never,” Shade said, shaking his head. But I would. It was the thing that didn’t let me be with him, this light, and Shade mattered more than anything in the world to me. Magic was great, but his arms were the only place in the world where I’d ever belonged. He was my home.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“You look alive, Snowflake,” he finally whispered, and I rested my head against the statue. “You look exactly like who you were always meant to be right now. Magic becomes you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Maybe I could go close to Shade without being triggered again. Maybe I could talk to him, even touch him and sleep in his arms soon. With this diamond, I could. The smile remained on my face for a long time because I realized that what Eeda said to me in that dream was right: there was no such thing as impossible. I was going to make this work one way or the other, simply because there was no other option.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“It never came. The light of the magic was filling up that diamond like it had never done with any other gemstone, and the diamond wasn’t breaking. It was holding up, cold still against my hands, when it felt like it should be burning. Melting. Breaking. All that energy, all that light was flowing right in the heart of that tiny thing, somehow taking its place even when there shouldn’t have been any space to begin with.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I searched for Shade, who was in the middle of the Arena now with Oreo by his feet, watching me, looking just as terrified as I was feeling. No, I wanted to tell him. Just take me away. Hide me from these people! But he couldn’t. There was nowhere to go now. Everything was already done.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“She claimed Gaea gave the Elyseans the original gemstones, too, before the Houses were even made, but the books said otherwise. They said the Houses were made by Elyseans themselves. They had figured out how to make godstones themselves because they had magic since they were born.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Do not trust fear. It is the second greatest liar of all, and when paired with the first—that awful, awful doubt—it is a terrible force to behold, indeed.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Arti slowly took the diamond from my hand and raised it up to the ceiling. “You are Sedorah Sinclair, the first of House Diamond.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Who are you?” Her smile stretched slowly, and it kind of made me think of a rainbow climbing up to the sky after warm summer rain. “I am your mother,” Eeda said. “I am the mother of all.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“There are others, so many others who have so many great qualities.” She stood up from the bed, straightening the wrinkles of her dress. “Smart people. Strong people. Courageous people,” Eeda said, then leaned a bit closer to my face like she was about to tell me a secret. “And it is quite true that fortune favors the bold, my dear. But the Fates have always favored the kind,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“Why are you…why were you always nice to me?” And why did you give me that transmitter stone? And why did you save me from the animals Jasper had unleashed on me that second time? And why… “Because I know your heart, dear. You’re kind. That’s much rarer nowadays that you’d think,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I searched for you, and then they told me you…you…” “People only see with their eyes, dear. Don’t be fooled by words. They have no true substance. Believe in what you know in here instead,” she said, pressing a finger to her chest. “That’s a compass that will never steer you wrong.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I don’t really have much time, dear, but I know you will be just fine. So much to remember still, but dig deep. Keep fighting—you will be fine,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“This will help you, dear.” And she showed me what she was holding between her index finger and thumb—a gemstone, except this one had no color. It was completely clear, and it was shaped like a… “Diamond.” It looked exactly like a diamond.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“There now,” she said. “I think you’re ready, Sera. I think you are.” I barely shook my head. “Ready for…what?” I choked, and the words were slurred together, but she understood. “To evolve,”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“And Althea kept on talking. Maybe she was singing? Sometimes it even sounded like waves crashing against the shore, and leaves rustling with the wind, and birds singing in the wild…how strange.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion

“I’ve never told you this before because I know you know it, but I love you, my beautiful Snowflake. I love your light and your dark. I love your glow and your tears. I’ll bring the whole world to their knees for you.”
― D.N. Hoxa, The Elysean Illusion