In the Veins of the Drowning Quotes

“He spoke over my lips. “What I feel for you is beyond reason—beyond duty and desire. You have tipped my whole world on its side, and you are the one clear thing in the chaos.” His nose brushed the end of mine. “You. I want you.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“You are . . . You're one ambush after the next and I have yet to get my bearings.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“You have shone a light on me. You made me feel fury and terror and joy and longing. How do I curl myself back into the darkness after being so alive?”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“For awful things filled empty spaces. And it was in the darkest, deepest part of the sea that monsters were made.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“I yearned for power too. I yearned for the freedom and choice and protection it could offer.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“What I feel for you is beyond reason—beyond duty and desire. You have tipped my whole world on its side, and you are the one clear thing in the chaos.” His nose brushed the end of mine. “You. I want you.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“I called you a gnat, and I detest myself for it. I am the bug. A moth. And you are the moon. Drawing me, pulling me. But I’ll never be able to reach you without destroying myself. All I can do is pray for the day.” He gave me a pleading look. “Do you understand? I am doing my very best to keep a grip on myself, to keep my distance, but everything you do seems in service of thwarting that goal.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Emotion etched his face. "You fill my every sense. You stalk my waking mind. You make up the entirety of my dreams.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“I see what’s between you two. It’s barbed and messy, but there’s something there.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“All my life I’d thought being docile and obedient would give me a sort of strength, safety. But I’d made myself fragile instead.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Right before it reached her - right before I woke - I realized: I was the women. I was the water. I was the monster.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Someday,” she whispered, as her fingers played through my damp hair, “you will have a full life. A home, if you want one. And you’ll see more than these stones and mountains and sky. And I’ll be with you when you first touch the sea. You’ll feel sand between your toes, and salt water on your tongue, and you will feel more joy than you can fathom. I promise.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“There were women—I’d seen them—who were lit from within, and when they became wives that light dampened. I did not know if it was their husbands that doused their flame, or if they themselves curled up around it, their very souls trying to protect it from extinguishing. Regardless, I had been prepared to watch myself dim. But Evander’s touch lit sparks inside me, and somehow, he coaxed the light within to burn brighter, to burn steadily.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“The line we toed began to break and blur.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Bedroll. As in one. As in there is no way in all the sweet hells that this blood bond would let you sleep away from me when we are in the middle of the wildlands with three strange men sleeping beside us.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Lay a hand on my wife and you’ll lose it.” Theodore gripped the hilt of the dagger.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“I called you a gnat, and I detest myself for it. I am the bug. A moth. And you are the moon. Drawing me, pulling me. But I’ll never be able to reach you without destroying myself. All I can do is pray for the day.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“He’s more interested in sending me off to be tortured in a severing ritual than bedding me.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“You are lovely. You’re charming, and if our circumstances were different, I’d likely enjoy a meal with you, bask in your wit, but as it is your beauty and charm are like gnats that I must swat away from my eyes to keep my vision clear. Your qualities are wasted on me. They do not matter, because your purpose and power exceed them.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Why on earth would anyone want a blood bond?”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“It’s the blood bond.” He lifted his wistful gaze to the ceiling. “It makes you believe you are the person best suited to care for him. To see that he isn’t harmed. The thought of him marrying another person should drive you mad.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“His blood felt like starshine. Bright and boiling, it climbed up the veins in my arm, into the pulse in my neck. It blistered me from within as it spread and spread through my body.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“He’d seen the dark thing within me, and it had changed him. Changed us.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Nemea is even cruel with his gifts.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“His eyes rounded”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“Unbelievably, I didn’t notice you right away.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“When we woke, we were so knotted together, it was as if we’d tried to climb into one another in the night.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning

“But she is not yours to take from. She is mine.”
― Kalie Cassidy, In the Veins of the Drowning