The Dread Descendant Quotes

“I thought about you ceaselessly,” he said. “I don’t think I quite understood the meaning of your presence until I was forced to endure your absence.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“War ruins everything. It is why we are here at all.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“You my sister’s boy?” Thaddeus’ eyes returned to Mal. “So it seems,” said Mal. “I tried to find you,” said Thad, his face soft and discomforted. Maeve’s heart tightened. “But you was long gone. No trace. I didn’t think you’d have his last name . .”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“I will gladly die a hundred deaths if it is he who breathes life back into me.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“I have no desire to marry him,” said Maeve hastily. Mal released her throat as Maeve coughed and breathed deeply. He brushed her hair out of her face. “And why is that?” Asked Mal slowly and meticulously. Maeve looked up at him, panting, the skin on her throat hot and pulsing. “Because I’m yours.” Mal nodded serenely. “Because you are mine.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“You have no idea do you,” he whispered. “No idea what lies waiting inside of you.” His hand traced along her jawline. “I will show you.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“I will end each and every one of them that tries to take what is mine.” “The Dread Lands?” she asked as his hand pulled out from between her stomach and her pants. A darkness formed on Mal’s face. “You.” His eyes bore into hers with a lethal rage so calm it should have been unsettling. “You are mine.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“I will end each and every one of them that tries to take what is mine.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Do you know that entire evening I was consumed by the thought of you in that lavender dress?”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Mal was the Dread Descendant. He was her savior. But none of that remained in her mind. All she knew was his hands on her body. His lips on hers.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“She wanted his all. His silent shadow and his passive protection. His unwavering and unnerving calm. There was no feeling but him. He was all consuming.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Magic calls to magic. Darkness calls to darkness. Blood calls to blood.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“In a desperate hour, your Prince of Darkness will return. Through a broken line of Magic, into unsuspecting veins. His life will call like to like in those where Magic blood remains. The Descendant of Dread will conquer the plague of the Promised Land, with a single finger, not a sword. Rejoice, child of golden blood, freedom shall be yours. On backs and broken necks will balance be restored.” The classroom turned eerily silent.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“like”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“he have him a small nod. ”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“You have the PremI ER as your father,”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“strew.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“There was a small table with a smoking pot of strew”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“one taunt leg holding them steady.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“cannot grantee the same,” seethed Maeve.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“She glanced aside as the trees in the courtyard seems to yearn for escape.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Reeve watched them with narrowed eyes as she spoke.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Magic and killed of thousands of people”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Magic.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Clearly that is all based all your foul mood.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“But I have never betrayed your father. And I don’t intent to start now.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Maeve practically ran to The Wings. She wasn’t the first one to run to the Wings.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“Mal, my boy good,” he said hurriedly.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“She held her shoeless leg foot the cold stone ground beneath them.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant

“I think we’ve mastered that,” mimicked Maeve.”
― Lauren Cate Leake, The Dread Descendant