Heart of Obsidian Quotes

“To fight evil, you have to understand the dark.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“You", he said, "are the single exception that rule". The oldest, deepest, most beautiful flaw in his Silence."Without you, I would be a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“I saw wild, dangerous beauty. I saw devotion. I saw you.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Sahara dug her fingers into his arms. “You do not do this,” she said, and it was an order. “You do not let that monster destroy the life we are going to have together. You are mine, not his. You have always been mine.”

The claiming was so absolute, it dared him to fight. Kaleb had no intention of doing so. Shuddering, he crushed her to him. “Yes,” he said, battling the rage because if he gave in to it, he would lose Sahara. “I’m yours. I will always be yours.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Some things need to be broken to become stronger.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Her voice trembled. “I’m so glad you’re mine. I won’t ever let you go.”

This time, it was Kaleb who said, “I know,” devastated at being so wanted. “You are just a little possessive.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“He would do things for he'd do for no one else, but while he'd empty the sky for her so she could spread her wings, fly, he would not set her free. She belonged to him, would always belong to him”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“If you don’t need my backsight,” she said to Kaleb, “then why am I here?”

He rose to his feet and, placing his hands on the table, leaned toward her until she could’ve reached out and run her fingers along his freshly shaven jaw. “You are here,” he said in a tone that made her heart thump wildly against her ribs, “because you belong to me.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Sahara knew she should be worried about the fact that she’d been in bed with a man who’d caused that kind of damage with a momentary and, according to him, minor loss of telekinetic control during intimacy, but she felt her lips kick up at the corners. So we literally made the earth move?

A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don’t engage in sex in populated areas.

The cool comment made her burst into laughter.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Don't be afraid of me, Sahara." Bending his head, he spoke with his lips against hers, the contact igniting a thousand tiny lightning strikes in her blood. "I'd line the streets with bodies before I'd ever hurt you.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“All right." Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. "But will you replace it with something for me?"

"Anything." His body was hers.

Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, "You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too." A tender kiss pressed to the scar. "I want us to fly together.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“He understands evil better than any other person I’ve ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Live your life, Sahara. Live it as big and with as much color as you can stand to bear. Don't let anyone or anything - the family, Silence, the wight of your ability, even my need to keep you close - confine you again.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Because I can.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“I love you. I will always love you.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Kaleb had no family, hadn't understood the concept of loyalty the first time he'd read about it - but after researching it, he'd realised it meant being connected to someone who would care if he lived or died, someone who would fight for and with him, someone who didn't want to hurt him.

He had never experienced any of those things.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“He hooked the charm into place. “Only this star matters.” His thumb brushing over her inner wrist. “Should it be erased, no other has the right to live.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Sahara dug her fingers into his arms. “You do not do this,” she said, and it was an order. “You do not let that monster destroy the life we are going to have together. You are mine, not his. You have always been mine.” The claiming was so absolute, it dared him to fight. Kaleb had no intention of doing so. Shuddering, he crushed her to him. “Yes,” he said, battling the rage because if he gave in to it, he would lose Sahara. “I’m yours. I will always be yours.” Her lips on his jaw, on his cheek, her love fierce. “Remember that. Each action, every action you take, it has my name on it.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“I researched sexual intimacy the same way I research everything else. Methodically and in intricate detail.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Good. It’s better if my DNA isn’t passed on.” “Why? You’re smart, beautiful, powerful.” “I’m also mentally unstable and may have tendencies toward criminal insanity.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“The arrows expect no mercy from no one”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“This man, he could make her his slave, her body his command. -Sahara”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“His assurance was enough for her to hold on to the shreds of her sanity . . . because Kaleb never broke his promises. “Sahara! I’ll come for you! Survive! Survive for me!”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian

“Without you, I would be a monster.”
― Nalini Singh, Heart of Obsidian