Shield of Winter Quotes

“How do you control your telekinesis while intimate with your mate?"

"I broke a damn lot of furniture at the start, including two beds." A curious glance. "What are you doing?"

"Traveling around the world.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“To Vasic, Aden had helped him stay sane. To Aden, Vasic had helped him stay upright when he would've fallen. One lost boy helping another.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“You’re my hope, Ivy, my beacon home on the darkest night.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“In front of her, Samuel Rain's spectacles shimmered, and she belatedly realized they weren't old-fashioned at all, but tools to allow him to see to a microcellular level. "Imbeciles." The engineer shut the interface panel, nodded at Vasic to close the protective carapace. "Stealing my work and thinking they know what to do with it. Like monkeys deciding to program a computronic system."

"Can you fix it?" Vasic asked.

"No, I'm brain damaged." With that, he put away the tool, snapped the toolbox shut, and hefted it. "Come back tomorrow."

Ivy stared after the engineer, hope a tight, hard knot in her chest. "He's either mad or brilliant."

"There's often only a razor-thin line between the two."

"And" - Rain called over his shoulder - "bring the dog!”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“You can’t protect my sanity by destroying yours.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“He has a heart so huge, it’s kept pumping, kept going long past endurance—even though life has bruised it to a pulp.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Her small pet spotted him first, barking out a sharp warning from where he stood on guard in the back doorway. Ivy appeared a second later, a broom in hand and her curls held back by a purple and white scarf. “I knew it was you,” she said with a slight smile. “You’ve now been downgraded from ‘deadly threat’ to ‘irritation that won’t go away’ in Rabbit’s bark vocabulary.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“It was too late the first day we met. You're inside me, and I 'm inside you. It's done.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Heroes are often the quietest people in a room, the ones least willing to lay claim to the title. These men and women simply go about doing what needs to be done without any expectation of gratitude or fame. It is in their nature to protect and to shield and to fight against darkness, whatever form it may take.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“There’s a kind of secrecy in the world at this time of night, as if I’m allowed to see mysteries hidden in daylight.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Humans and changelings had hobbies, he thought in one corner of his mind. This would be his.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Surely," he said, "you don't doubt Samuel Rain's genius. Are you a monkey?”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Aden had only ever had one true friend, someone he knew would fight for him and with him regardless of whether he held any power or not. The others in the squad he trusted, but Vasic occupied an entirely different place in his life, until it was as if their blood was the same.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“I have to fill the bathtub with water.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“If I lose him, I’ll break.” His mind touched hers. You can’t break, Ivy. You’re the only home my Arrows know—no matter what, that home must survive.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“All you did was haul me into the light. I could’ve walked away at any point. I chose to stay. I will always choose to stay.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Judd gave the others hope,” Aden said quietly. “You make them believe in that hope.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Aden turned his body toward her . . . and then he did an unexpected thing for an Arrow. He reached out to cup her jaw, hold her face for a long, taut second, their eyes locked. I think, he said at last, you are a worthy match for my friend, Ivy Jane. You see the greatness of him—and you see his vulnerability. Neither scares you. A decisive nod as he broke contact. Anything you need from me, you can have. You need only ask.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“*You helped him stay stable.*
*No, Ivy. I made sure he didn't go over the final edge, but that isn't enough.*”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Why coerce when you can contract ?”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“He’s built to protect, to shield, and they made him a killer.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“I know.” He leaned forward, pressed his forehead against hers. “Just . . . give me a little time. I’ve never had someone who was mine before.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“The man I was, the man I am, the man I will be, the man I want to be, they all belong to you. Always.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Centered by his touch, his faith in her, she petted his chest through the fine merino wool of his charcoal sweater […] Not that he’d ever bother to take the time to buy things like this for himself. But he loved it when she did – and the small, domestic act gave her intense pleasure. As feeding her chocolate habit gave him. It wasn’t only emotion, raw and real, that Silence had stolen from her race, she thought, but the myriad quiet intimacies that colored the intricate tapestry of life. “Okay,” she said, after another nuzzling kiss from her panther. “I’m ready.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“she was a rare, beautiful gift. And such a gift, came the ice-cold reminder from the core of his nature, would only end up crushed and bloody and defiled should he attempt to handle it.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Do you truly feel nothing?” she whispered. “Are you without fractures?” “It’s better this way.” His eyes kissed her with frost. “The day I feel is the day I die.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Are you going to be serious?" She scowled.

"No. I'd rather cause an earthquake.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“I don’t want to be in a world where he doesn’t get to survive. How is that in any way fair?”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“Rabbit had taken to following Vasic around, leaning up against his leg any time he stopped. Vasic didn’t rebuke their pet, always finding time to stop and touch Rabbit before going about his work again. But Rabbit wouldn’t be soothed, as Ivy couldn’t be soothed.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter