Lady of The Lake Quotes

“I’ve been wanting to strip you naked and watch you come since the night you first insulted me, Nia.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Instead, I’m fleeing from a fucking basilisk so I can marry a man I’ve kissed once, a man I’m also trying to kill. Worst game of Kiss, Marry, Kill ever.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“It’s like I was living in a world of shadows and mist, and then you showed up in my castle—wild, furious, insulting me. And you looked like dawn.” His voice drops. “Rose and honey. You felt like something I lost a long time ago. And ever since, I haven’t been able to clear my mind. Without you, now, I think it would feel like the air stopped moving through the trees. It would feel like the sun would never rise, the rivers would stop flowing, and everything would turn to dust.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“You felt like something I lost a long time ago. And ever since, I haven’t been able to clear my mind. Without you, now, I think it would feel like the air stopped moving through the trees. It would feel like the sun would never rise, the rivers would stop flowing, and everything would turn to dust.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“My lethal wife.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Now, I’m your plaything.” His eyes glitter like dark jewels, and his gaze sweeps down my body, then up again. The dark, velvety feel of his magic wraps around me, making my pulse race. “Not nearly as much as I’d like you to be.” I stare up at him. “You and I don’t exactly go together.” “And yet here we are, the only two people in the world with primal powers. And I think you like me more than you let on. Even if you know I’m evil down to my bones, some part of you wants a taste of my poison. Underneath your pretty little uptight farm girl exterior, you hunger for chaos. You crave adventure. You want the freedom to make bad decisions.” His voice drops low, and a dangerous edge slides through his words. “And what’s a worse decision than me?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“This man is a flickering flame in the darkness, and I’m the moth drawn to his fire. I know he’ll singe my wings, but I can’t resist the light.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Since when did you give a fuck about the gods? The only god you need to worship is me.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“His velvety voice rings in my thoughts. A serpent’s tongue to drain me of light… She haunts my bones”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“It’s like I was living in a world of shadows and mist”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“The voice returned to my thoughts”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“This man is a flickering flame in the darkness”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“I’m not your sister, nor your aunt,” I whisper, “but I am your queen.”
“That,” he whispers, “might just be the sexiest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“It’s one of my official roles as prince—Master of the Dragons. My mother taught me to ride them when I was a little boy, before my father set her on fire.” He paused. “Do you know what? I sometimes think my family might be a bit dysfunctional.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“But you are an Agent of Avalon, a plague to our kingdom. The traitor I’ve been looking for all along. Isn’t that right, darling wife?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“The way he’s looking at me like he’s about to lose control completely sends a dark thrill plummeting into my core. He’s desperate, the perfectly composed prince coming undone before me, and I want this moment to last forever. His expression is worshipful.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“And what if we end up separated?” “I will find you, little wife, wherever you go.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Any signs of the assassins?” “Already gone, Your Highness. We’re sending trackers to hunt them down.” “Find them alive. I want their confession. Because they didn’t just try to kill me. They tried to kill my wife, a mistake I will make them regret.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“I want to kiss every inch of your skin, to caress you with my tongue. To taste you would be to sip the nectar of an exquisite bloom…”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Will you have a little faith in me for once?” I say, my voice tight. “I’ve been cleaning up other people’s messes since I was a kid.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Moths flutter around us—not metallic, but real ones that are bright blue. Corbinelle moths. Beautiful to look at, but they’re venomous. Like Talan, really.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Darling, don’t you know I’m a monster?”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Arwenna trembles, the rain slicking her pale hair to her face. “And what am I supposed to do?” Talan cuts her a sharp look. “Curtsy, Countess. You are supposed to curtsy to a princess.” She pales, frozen, a statue made not of marble or bronze, but of pure outrage. He exhales, then arches an eyebrow. “Must I really repeat myself, Lady Arwenna?” His voice is quieter now, mocking. “You know the rules better than most. Or have you somehow forgotten even the most basic etiquette?” Gritting her teeth, Arwenna keeps her eyes locked on me. Her lip curls slightly, baring her canines. Though vibrating with tension, she slowly bends her knees in a stiff, perfunctory curtsy. Her face flushes with fury.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“Worst game of Kiss, Marry, Kill ever.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“I leave you alone for two minutes, and you wander off to start murdering warriors.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“By mist and stone, by lake and hollow, I’ll walk with thee through light and shadow. I pledge to thee my sword and soul, two lives now joined, two halves made whole. Two hearts entwined, two fates aligned, with these words, to thee I bind.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“I find that the best thing, really, for a post-breakup emotional spiral is a near-death experience.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“She puts the fire out, but sometimes she craves the raging flames that would burn it all down.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“ragged. “Even when the stars burn out, you’ll still be in my head because you were the only thing that ever made me feel like I wasn’t completely alone.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake

“I will bring you back to the castle. I will make sure that you are safe. But then, my princess, I’m afraid I have a traitor to find.”
― C.N. Crawford, Lady of The Lake