Iron & Embers Quotes

“You look like you’re going to kiss me,” she said, her body calling out for his touch. “You look like you’d enjoy it,” he replied, his fingers entwining with hers.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Only in the fires of adversity can true greatness be forged.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“But it's not about the fleeting moments that came before or the number of lovers who've warmed a bed. It's about the person who's holding your hand at the end, the person you can't let go of no matter how hard you might have tried.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Knowledge is the victor over fate. The mind is the blade.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“I do, you know', she ventured. 'Think of you.'
Gods, his chest ached, and it took all his self-restraint not to go to her. 'And I you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“To the women who rewrite the rules, one page at a time. Your potential is the plot twist the world never saw coming.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“There is nothing so poisonous as that which the mind conjures.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“It was worth every minute', she said hoarsely.
Torj stroked her hair. 'To pass the Gauntlet?'
'No', she whispered. 'To get back to you'.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“We survived it,” he told her. “You and me. Together.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Revenge is a precarious path to walk… It is often said that those who seek it should dig two graves.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Liquor, the concoction that whispers sweet nothings in your ear, only to leave you with a spinning head and a tongue tied in knots.” —Elwren Embervale’s notes and observations”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“knowledge is might.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Wren followed his gaze across the foyer to where Kipp was swimming in a fountain.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Wren?' Her name on his lips was like a song. She met his gaze, and his rugged handsomeness hit her like a blow. 'Just so you know...' The Bear Slayer grinned. 'I never quit.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“You can't get rid of me so easily,' he called out.
'Whatever you say, Warsword.' But as she walked away, Wren felt his gaze on her back, warm as summer sun, and a strange spark, right in the centre of her chest.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Do you mean to kill me Embers?' His powerful frame was rigid with tension - with restraint, she realized. 'Because if you're to be the end of me, it's an end I'll greet with open arms'.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“It’s about the person who’s holding your hand at the end. The person you can’t let go of, no matter how hard you might have tried.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“You couldn’t save your mother, so now you try to save everyone else,” she whispered. “But who’s saving you, Torj?” You did, he wanted to say. You saved me. But he let the words fade on his tongue.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“In the aftermath of the war”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Who knew you were so political”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“I can multitask.” “I’m yet to meet a man who can”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“It’s about the person who’s holding your hand at the end. The person you can’t let go of”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“I didn’t fight in the fucking shadow war so a man could tell me where my place is.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“He wanted her”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“The human mind holds more poison than any plant’ – Elwren Embervale’s notes and observations”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“It was worth every minute,” she said hoarsely. Torj stroked her hair. “To pass the Gauntlet?” “No,” she whispered. “To get back to you.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Gods,” she heard him mutter. “Don’t look at me like that”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Wren blinked. “You mean there’s only one? For both of us?”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“His words were more than an observation; they were a promise. And she felt the truth of them pulse between her thighs, felt the slickness that gathered there.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers

“Torj raised the hammer high, the brilliance of a captured tempest swirling around its head. He brought it down in a mighty swing, slamming it against the ground at the feet of their enemies.”
― Helen Scheuerer, Iron & Embers