Ruin Quotes

“I am yours if you will have me, for as long as you want me."
Her lips parted softly, dark green eyes flitting between my own. "And if I want you until the end of time?"
"Then it will still not be enough.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Do you love him?” he pressed in an even smaller voice. This time, my smile grew so wide it hurt my cheeks, and my heart fluttered painfully against my chest. “More than anyone has ever loved another, even from before time was made.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I kneel only for you,”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“It looks like you are night incarnate, the stars in the sky, the power in my veins. Do you still want me? Do you ache for me the way I ache for you? Has this week been torture for you as it has been for me?”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I lay my heart in your hands.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“You are my heart.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I love you unendingly.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“You are the only one I have ever wanted.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I am yours. Take what you need.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Anything you want, I will give it to you.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I need you more than the air in my lungs, more than the magic in my veins. I need your light and your darkness. I need you.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“You have consumed me, Oralia,” I whispered in answer, pressing a kiss to the corner of her eye, sliding my lips over the thin skin of her lid until her lashes tickled my mouth. I brushed the space between her brows. “I cannot sleep.” I moved to the other lid. “Cannot eat.” Down to her other cheekbone. “You have crawled beneath my skin.” My lips lingered at the corner of her mouth. “You have taken root in my very soul.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“And I wanted to crawl into her very skin to destroy us both from the inside out.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Out of the corner of my eye, he flexed his hand as if he, too, had felt that spark.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Allow me to worship you.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I am absolutely starving,” I growled, before sucking her swollen clit into my mouth.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Standing before me was not merely a powerful god, not merely my lover, but my queen. Myhn lathira.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“So if I was to slip my hand between your gorgeous thighs, right here where anyone wandering by could see, I would not find you wet and aching for me?”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I am yours if you will have me, for as long as you want me.” Her lips parted softly, dark green eyes flitting between my own. “And if I want you until the end of time?” “Then it will still not be enough.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“You believe it is I who does not wish to be seen with you?” My tone was hollow, barely a question. The answer was clear in the way her blush stained her cheeks and her teeth bit into her lower lip. “Allow me to make myself very clear.” I ran my thumb across her bottom lip, tugging it from her teeth. “It is an honor to be seen with you, Oralia, and it has nothing to do with your power. Look at all you have done in your short time here to heal from your past. The strength you have found within yourself.” I leaned closer, my lips brushing hers. “It is I who is not worthy to be by your side.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Stars, if I could truly die, I would want it to be like this: wringing each sound of ecstasy from her lips.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Use me, eshara,” I commanded, pulling her down so I could drag my tongue through her glistening need. “Make yourself come.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Typhon should know better than to try to take what is mine,”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“How would you like me to do that, eshara?” The old term of endearment I’d never used before flowed from my lips before I could stop it. My darling. My life force. My pulse.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“I had wanted to be the one to help her find her strength. I needed to be the one to witness her finally realize how powerful she was. To watch what would happen when she realized the world would bend a knee to her will. I wanted to be the first to kneel.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“The darkness nourishes, the darkness strengthens, and the darkness protects.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“You are more powerful than you know,”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“Touch her again and you die.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“that darkness and death lived inside of me as surely as light and prosperity did.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin

“As much as I could, I tried to remember my mother. There were times, in the moments between sleeping and waking, that I could almost see her gentle, smiling face. Yet it was intangible—like wisps of curling smoke. And as the daylight grew and the darkness waned, I found I could no more hold onto the image than I could hold onto vapor. The feel of her motherly affection evaporating in the morning sun.”
― Gillian Eliza West, Ruin