A Forbidden Alchemy Quotes

“Patrick’s eyes dipped to my mouth. Suddenly, he felt too close. “And did you love him?” “Yes.” I shivered. “And he you?” “I believed he did.” “And do you love him still?” He asked it so quietly I strained to hear. His face took on the visage of a ghost, lantern light only settling on the sharpest bones. Breath weighted my lungs, and my feet sunk another inch. Why did all things become heavier in the dark? “It isn’t your business to know who I love.” But I said it to the ground, where there was no brilliant blue. Beneath my skin, blood raced. Silence. Sounds suffocated on the hot air. Patrick waited an interminable moment, until it was impossible not to look at him again. “If it’s all the same to you,” he said, low and exact, “I’m inclined to make it my business.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I drew pictures of you,” I told him, giving him this one small piece of myself. “In school.” He didn’t speak. Just pulled me round and round in a small orbit. I swallowed. “I was scared to forget you.” The sound of his heart beating made me think of caves under leagues of sea. “I never had a hope in the world of forgetting you, Scurry girl.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Rather, our eyes caught on each other’s, and there was a long pause. Prismatic blue shifted, melted. A jump along his jaw. I wondered if there was something in his middle that cracked and spilled out, as it did in mine.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Because you’ve been stuck in my head for thirteen long years,” he said. “And now that you’re here, I can’t bring it upon myself to see you leave.” He lifted her then, clear off the floor, and her screeching laughter tinkled down the tunnel as he pressed his forehead to hers. “I’m in love with you, I’m afraid.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I think I’ve fallen in love with you,” he said gruffly. “So you’d better fuckin’ come out, Nina. Promise me. Now.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“You’re too beautiful to be real,” he said suddenly, softly. With my ear pressed to his chest, I could feel the words, too. “There’s your compliment.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I intend to put the rest of these boys to shame and spoil you for anyone else.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Well, you dropped your skirt in front of me once, Nina Harrow. By all means, do it again.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“He shook himself from his reverie. “Well,” he said. “That fuckin’ showed me, didn’t it?”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“And what will happen to this… romance when he finds out why you’re really here, Nina?” he asked. “When Patrick finds out who sent you?”
My fingers clenched. “Theo, please… someone might hear—”
“Or worse,” Theo continued, “what will happen to you, when Tanner learns you’ve been seduced by the man you were sent to bury?”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I was scared to forget you.” The sound of his heart beating made me think of caves under leagues of sea. “I never had a hope in the world of forgetting you, Scurry girl.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I was twelve years old in a courtyard, and a furtive hand slipped vials into my pocket. You’ve got a mind of your own, the boy said. Don’t let those fuckers take it. And then he faded from view.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“He´s bad to those who´re bad. No idea if that makes him good, though.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I don´t envy the Artisans their dresses and parties any longer. But I envy them their sons and daughters, who´ll never step foot in a pit.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“The village needs somethin´ big and bad to stalk about in the night. They feel safer havin´ it even if they´re scared of it.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Are you all right?” he asked. I’d forgotten how much he used to ask it, a habit returning. He reached for my hand and gripped it in his, pulling me through. Patrick stared at where Theo and I connected. There was a tick along his jaw.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Thank you.'
'For what?' she asked, her lips a hairsbreadth from his.
'For giving me a piece of yourself,' he said. 'I swear to you, I'll look after it.'
And then he kissed her endlessly.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I turned to shafts of light”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“If there was a way out”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“He grinned when he saw me. It was small and fleeting; he tore his eyes away to hide it.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Do you regret me already”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“A ways ahead”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“You’re exactly as I remember you.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“But you do know him”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“The one he’d thought of every day since.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“And did you ever think of me?”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Cold eyes and all”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“Lord”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“I saw clearly the world divided in two: him on one side and me lost in the middle.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy

“If he'd had a talent for art, he'd have wished to freeze time to paint her, just the way she was.”
― Stacey McEwan, A Forbidden Alchemy